Kyiv launches fresh drone assault on Putin's oil refineries inside Russia - Volgograd governor Andrei Bocharov says a fire temporarily broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed condolences to family and friends of those killed in a Russian strike that targeted an apartment block in Sumy, and stressed the importance of continued international pressure on Russia over such terror.

The death toll from the Russian drone strike on a multi-story residential building in Sumy has risen to nine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

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Ukrainian officials said Thursday a Russian drone attack killed at least four people in the northeastern city of Sumy. The regional state administration in Sumy said a drone hit a high-rise residential building, and that the attack also injured nine people.

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Ukraine has launched its second major drone attack in a week against Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles from its borders.

A Russian oil refinery in the southern Volgograd region caught fire after being hit by debris from a Ukrainian drone attack. Regional Governor Andrei Bocharov confirmed the overnight attack, saying on Friday that the blaze was “promptly extinguished” and one injured worker was hospitalised.

Russia on Friday launched a barrage of drones on Ukraine in an overnight attack, injuring four people and damaging a hospital and a grain warehouse in the