Russian attacks kill three in Ukraine as Kyiv hits another oil refinery
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- President Zelenskyy says Ukraine is expanding its long-range drone campaign with new strikes deep inside Russia.
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- Russia attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones early on Wednesday, damaging five petrol stations and killing a woman, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.
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President Zelenskyy says Ukraine is expanding its long-range drone campaign with new strikes deep inside Russia.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A rescue worker evacuates Valentina Kolokolova, 76, from her apartment building hit by a Russian air strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on June 30, 2026 [Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff and AFPPublished On 1 Jul 20261 Jul 2026Overnight Russian attacks have killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen in southeastern Ukraine as Kyiv has struck a Russian oil refinery more than 1,300km (800 miles) from the front line.
Russia attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones early on Wednesday, damaging five petrol stations and killing a woman, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. A separate attack late on Tuesday in Zaporizhzhia, the capital of the neighbouring Zaporizhia region, killed two people, Ukrainian media reported.