00:00Ukraine has struck two Russian oil refineries hundreds of kilometers from the border in an
00:06overnight attack, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday, as Russia hit a train station
00:12and commercial ship in Ukraine. According to Zelenskyy, Ukraine had hit oil refineries in
00:20the Bashkostan and Yaroslav region, about 700 kilometers from the front lines.
00:25The attacks were, quote, strengthening the prospects for diplomacy, Zelenskyy said.
00:32The attacks come after Russia's assaults on Kyiv that killed at least 17 people on Wednesday
00:38and injured dozens more as Kyiv deals with a shortage of interceptor missiles. Zelenskyy
00:45said later Wednesday that he had spoken to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter about securing
00:52more interceptor missiles. Both sides have been intensifying their long-range attacks in recent
00:58months, leading to a jump in civilian deaths. In July, Russian attacks killed at least 377
01:05civilians and wounded some 2,129 others in Ukraine, making it the deadliest month of the invasion
01:13since April 2022.
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