While kyiv claims to have struck two Russian oil refineries overnight, Ukrainian energy sites were targeted at the same time by Moscow in a “massive” attack. Furthermore, two hospitals in the Ukrainian capital, including a pediatric establishment, are in the process of being evacuated for fear of Russian strikes on these infrastructures.
Information to remember
⇒ Ukraine says it hit two Russian oil refineries
⇒ kyiv announces the evacuation of two hospitals for fear of Russian strikes
⇒ Washington announces an additional $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine
Ukraine says it hit two Russian oil refineries
In a large-scale night attack, on the night of Friday April 26 to Saturday April 27, Ukrainian drones struck two Russian oil refineries and a military airfield in the southern region of Krasnodar, an official told AFP on Saturday. Ukrainian defense source.
Earlier, Russian authorities reported a fire at a refinery in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban and state media said the facility had partially halted production.
The Russian Defense Ministry also said that 68 Ukrainian drones were intercepted by Russia overnight on Friday, in the Krasnodar region (south) and in annexed Crimea.
“They tried to attack oil refineries and infrastructure. According to information on site, there are no injuries or serious damage,” Krasnodar region governor Veniamin Kondratyev wrote on Telegram.
Russian strikes targeted energy sites, says kyiv
“Russia has organized a new massive missile attack against Ukraine,” the Ukrainian army said in its daily morning briefing this Saturday. During the night from Friday to Saturday, Moscow fired 34 missiles against energy sites in three regions of the country. 21 missiles were shot down, according to the Air Force.
Two people were injured in Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region (central-east), the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, said on Telegram.
kyiv announces the evacuation of two hospitals for fear of Russian strikes
kyiv town hall announced this Friday the emergency evacuation of two hospitals in the Ukrainian capital, including a pediatric establishment. “A video is widely shared in online media announcing a de facto enemy attack on these medical facilities,” the town hall announced on Telegram.
The video in question claims that two hospitals located on Bogatyrska Street, on the northern outskirts of kyiv, house soldiers who “hide behind sick children.”
These “terrorists […] will all receive the punishment they deserve,” one man insists in the video. The BBC’s Ukrainian service identified him as Belarusian KGB chief Ivan Tertel, speaking at a national assembly in this country allied with Russia, led with an iron fist by Alexander Lukashenko.
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, at least 1,682 attacks against health centers have been recorded there, according to figures provided in early April by the World Health Organization.
Washington announces $6 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine
A few days after announcing a first phase of aid to Ukraine, amounting to one billion dollars (around 9.34 million euros), the American Minister of Defense, Lloyd Austin, affirmed this Friday that a new envelope of 6 billion dollars (5.6 billion euros) would be allocated to kyiv.
“This is the largest package of military aid that we have announced so far,” said the American official. This aid program includes air defense, anti-drone systems, artillery ammunition. It will allow kyiv to “stabilize the front line”, welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Briton charged with attacks targeting Ukraine-linked businesses
A 20-year-old British man named Dylan Earl has been charged in London under the national security law for allegedly organizing attacks on “businesses linked to Ukraine to benefit the state”. Russian,” the country’s anti-terrorism authorities said on Friday.
These facts include “planning an arson” against a company linked to kyiv last month. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the summons of the Russian ambassador to London, Andreï Keline.
During this summons, “the Russian side underlined the absurd and knowingly unfounded nature of this new falsification of information hastily concocted by the British establishment”, indicated the ambassador, according to a comment sent to the public agency TASS.