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Russia accuses Ukraine of attempt to kill Putin with drones
Story by Reuters • Yesterday 11:34 pm - 3-5-2023
FIRE OF 'HIGHEST RANK'
In videos posted on Russian social media of the burning fuel depot near the Crimea bridge, flames and black smoke billowed over large tanks emblazoned with red warnings of "Flammable".
"The fire has been classified as the highest rank of difficulty," said Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of the Krasnodar region, adding that there were no casualties. People should remain calm, there was no need to evacuate the surrounding village and 188 firefighters were battling the blaze with foam.
In Ukraine, the governor of the central Kirovohrad region said three Russian drones had tried to hit an oil facility in the region's main city Kropyvnytskyi. Prosecutors said a huge fire had broken out there.
Zelenskiy's visit to Finland was just his fourth known trip abroad since Russia's full-scale invasion. Leaders of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were also invited.
"The theme of the summit is Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the Nordic countries' continued support for Ukraine, Ukraine's relationship with the EU and NATO, and Ukraine's initiative for a just peace," Finland's President Sauli Niinisto's office said.
The Nordic countries have been among the strongest supporters of Ukraine since the invasion, with Finland and Sweden both applying to join NATO in response to a war Moscow claimed was aimed in part at blocking the alliance's expansion.
Zelenskiy, who has also visited the United States, Britain, France, Poland and the EU's headquarters in Belgium, is due in Germany on May 13.
Russia says it launched its "special military operation" to counter a threat from Kyiv's relations with the West. Ukraine and its allies call it an unprovoked war of conquest by Moscow, derailed by a failed assault on the capital Kyiv early last year and Ukrainian advances in the second half of 2022.
Over the past five months, Ukrainian ground forces have kept mostly to the defensive, while Russia launched a huge, largely unsuccessful winter assault, capturing little new ground despite the bloodiest infantry combat in Europe since World War Two.
For its planned counterattack, Kyiv has been building up a force with thousands of fresh troops trained at Western bases and armed with hundreds of new Western-supplied tanks and armoured vehicles. Russia has dug in heavy fortifications along the length of the front line.
(Writing by Peter GraffEditing by Philippa Fletcher and Andrew Cawthorne)
Fuel depot ablaze near key Crimea bridge in Russia
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Russia accuses Ukraine of attempt to kill Putin with drones
Story by Reuters • Yesterday 11:34 pm - 3-5-2023
FIRE OF 'HIGHEST RANK'
In videos posted on Russian social media of the burning fuel depot near the Crimea bridge, flames and black smoke billowed over large tanks emblazoned with red warnings of "Flammable".
"The fire has been classified as the highest rank of difficulty," said Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of the Krasnodar region, adding that there were no casualties. People should remain calm, there was no need to evacuate the surrounding village and 188 firefighters were battling the blaze with foam.
In Ukraine, the governor of the central Kirovohrad region said three Russian drones had tried to hit an oil facility in the region's main city Kropyvnytskyi. Prosecutors said a huge fire had broken out there.
Zelenskiy's visit to Finland was just his fourth known trip abroad since Russia's full-scale invasion. Leaders of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were also invited.
"The theme of the summit is Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the Nordic countries' continued support for Ukraine, Ukraine's relationship with the EU and NATO, and Ukraine's initiative for a just peace," Finland's President Sauli Niinisto's office said.
The Nordic countries have been among the strongest supporters of Ukraine since the invasion, with Finland and Sweden both applying to join NATO in response to a war Moscow claimed was aimed in part at blocking the alliance's expansion.
Zelenskiy, who has also visited the United States, Britain, France, Poland and the EU's headquarters in Belgium, is due in Germany on May 13.
Russia says it launched its "special military operation" to counter a threat from Kyiv's relations with the West. Ukraine and its allies call it an unprovoked war of conquest by Moscow, derailed by a failed assault on the capital Kyiv early last year and Ukrainian advances in the second half of 2022.
Over the past five months, Ukrainian ground forces have kept mostly to the defensive, while Russia launched a huge, largely unsuccessful winter assault, capturing little new ground despite the bloodiest infantry combat in Europe since World War Two.
For its planned counterattack, Kyiv has been building up a force with thousands of fresh troops trained at Western bases and armed with hundreds of new Western-supplied tanks and armoured vehicles. Russia has dug in heavy fortifications along the length of the front line.
(Writing by Peter GraffEditing by Philippa Fletcher and Andrew Cawthorne)
Fuel depot ablaze near key Crimea bridge in Russia
© Thomson Reuters
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