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(Bloomberg) — Ukraine faced another large-scale Russian air strike following President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comments that Moscow will turn down a US-brokered ceasefire on attacks against energy infrastructure.
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Russia attacked Ukraine’s largest cities on Thursday, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipro, damaging residential buildings, the country’s air defense said after the overnight barrage, adding that most of the 24 ballistic missiles and 219 drones used were intercepted. Two people were killed in the attack, Zelenskiy said in a post on X.
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The air raid seriously damaged an unidentified power facility in the Odesa region, the private energy company DTEK said in a post on Facebook. Repairs will take significant time, it said.
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It’s the latest in a series of Russian air attacks targeting Ukraine’s civilian and energy infrastructure amid freezing conditions as winter continues to test the country’s resilience. Although temperatures have begun to rise across Ukraine, disruptions to heating and water supplies caused by Russia’s strikes — compounded by recent extreme frosts — persist, along with prolonged blackouts.
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In Kyiv, nearly 2,600 additional residential buildings were left without heating following last night’s massive attack, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on Telegram.
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Fire crews are working to extinguish a blaze at Lukoil JSC’s oil refinery following a Ukrainian drone attack in the city of Ukhta some 1,550 kilometers (over 960 miles) north-east of Moscow, Komi Republic Governor Rostislav Goldshtein said in a post on Telegram on Thursday without giving further details. Russia’s oil refineries have frequently been targeted in Ukraine’s air campaigns, with an attack on Lukoil’s major Volgograd facility reported Wednesday.
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Kyiv has not yet commented on the incident in Ukhta, while the state-run Tass news service cited the regional emergency services as saying the city had come under an overnight drone attack.
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The US and Ukraine seek to reach another energy ceasefire agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Kyiv saying it’s ready to halt its air strikes on Russia’s oil refineries. However, the Russian leader is not ready for such a deal, Zelenskiy told reporters Wednesday.
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Previously Putin agreed only to a brief pause in air strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure at the request of US President Donald Trump, who according to Zelenskiy has set a June deadline to broker an end to Russia’s full-scale invasion, which is soon to enter its fifth year.
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