United News of Bangladesh

A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an oil terminal in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region overnight, local officials said Saturday, in the latest strike targeting Moscow’s energy infrastructure. Authorities in the port city of Novorossiysk said falling drone debris triggered the blaze at an oil terminal, leaving two people injured. However, they did not name the facility involved. Russia’s Astra news outlet reported that Ukrainian drones hit the Sheskharis oil terminal and depot, a key hub linked to the Transneft pipeline network. Images shared by the outlet showed smoke rising from the area, though the footage could not be independently verified. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the incident. Ukraine has increasingly stepped up drone and missile strikes inside Russia, using domestically developed weapons to hit oil and energy sites that play an important role in financing Moscow’s war effort. Such attacks have become frequent in recent months. Meanwhile, Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied Luhansk region said the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike on a college dormitory in Starobilsk has risen to 11. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday condemned the dormitory strike as a “crime” and ordered the military to prepare retaliation options. He claimed there were no military or security facilities near the building. At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council requested by Russia, Ukrainian envoy Andrii Melnyk rejected the allegations, calling them “propaganda” and insisting that Ukraine’s May 22 operations targeted only Russian military infrastructure.