Kyiv, Ukraine. Six people were wounded in overnight Russian air strikes on Ukraine, local authorities said on Tuesday, as a fuel crisis in Russia deepened and spread into parts of Siberia.
Overnight strikes in Ukraine
The strikes followed a Ukrainian attack on a plant producing electronics for missiles in Russia’s border Voronezh region on Monday that killed five people and injured dozens, according to the local governor.
Two people sought medical help after Russian forces struck the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram. Emergency services said three more people were wounded in Sumy, in northern Ukraine, late on Monday.
One woman was injured in a drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram on Monday evening. Early on Tuesday, authorities in Kyiv briefly issued an air raid alert before withdrawing it.
Continuing exchanges of attacks
Russia and Ukraine have continued to exchange strikes as the war has entered its fifth year. Zelenskiy has sought support from Western allies for a peace deal while also pressing for fast-track admission to the European Union.
Zelenskiy warned last week that Russia was preparing a massive attack, something Moscow has said it would conduct regularly. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Reuters could not independently verify details of the latest strikes.
Fuel crisis spreads in Russia
Ukrainian attacks on maritime logistics and supply roads have sparked a fuel crisis in Russia and in areas of Ukraine controlled by Russia.
Kyiv’s intensified air strikes on Russian energy infrastructure have hit targets as far away as Siberia, more than 2,000 kilometres from the front line, undermining the availability of gasoline and diesel in Russia, the world’s third-largest oil producer.
The fuel crisis has spread from Russia-annexed Crimea to areas in central and eastern Russia and has also reached the Siberian regions of Novosibirsk, home to the city of the same name, Russia’s third largest, and Omsk near the border with Kazakhstan.
