Ukraine strikes oil refinery and processing facilities in Russia

Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region and oil-processing facilities in Perm and Tatarstan, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, adding another round of attacks to the war’s expanding strikes on energy and transport infrastructure.

Zelensky also said Ukrainian forces hit a site used to store and launch attack drones in Russia’s Kursk region, as well as an unspecified target in the Black Sea.

Russia reported its own strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure. The Russian military hit a vessel in the port of Chornomorsk that it said carried military cargo, Interfax reported, citing the Defence Ministry. At the port of Izmail, Russian forces also struck loading facilities, the agency said.

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The tit-for-tat attacks came as Kyiv considered new proposals from US envoys on ending the war. A senior Ukrainian presidential official described the proposals as “more effective” after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv.

The Kremlin said Russia was open to restarting three-way talks with Washington and Kyiv. “We, too, do not rule out the resumption of the trilateral format, but it is too early to say anything about the venue or the exact dates at this stage,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

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We, too, do not rule out the resumption of the trilateral format, but it is too early to say anything about the venue or the exact dates at this stage