Sept 11 (Reuters) – Russian air strikes injured eight and caused a fire in a nine-storey apartment building in Kyiv on Friday morning, the city authorities said on Telegram, as Moscow resumed attacks on the Ukrainian capital after a short break for U.S. envoys trip.
Reuters footage showed servicemen trying to put out a fire at the apartment building in Kyiv where a number of windows were blown out.
Russia returned to its near-constant air attacks on Kyiv this week after a brief halt during the visit to Moscow and Kyiv of U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiators seeking to end the war which the Kremlin started by invading Ukraine in 2022.
In Russia, Ukrainian drones damaged civilian infrastructure in the central Volga River city of Saratov, regional governor Roman Busargin said on Telegram, adding that there were no casualties.
Russian e-commerce company Ozon said on Telegram that a Ukraine drone attack caused a fire at its logistics hub in Saratov, adding to more than two dozen warehouses, owned by Ozon and its top peer Wildberries, that have been recently hit.
The Saratov region, a frequent target of Ukrainian air strikes, including an attack earlier this week, is home to a large oil refinery run by state oil company Rosneft, as well as a number of other industrial and military facilities.
In the city of Volgograd south of Saratov and also located on the Volga River, a missile attack injured two after hitting a residential building, with its debris also damaging an industrial facility, local authorities said on Telegram.
The post did not provide details about the industrial facility. The Volgograd oil refinery run by Lukoil, one of Russia’s biggest by processing capacity, is located on the outskirts of the city.
Reuters could not immediately verify the reports. Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately targeting civilians.
(Reporting by Gleb Garanich in Kyiv and Jekaterīna Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Michael Perry)
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