Nine people were injured when Russian missiles hit two buildings the central city of Dnpiro late Friday, Ukrainian officials say.
, about 24 miles east of the border with Ukraine. Debris fell on the city, the ministry added, alleging the missile was part of a “terror attack” by Ukraine. Officials in the city reported that 20 people were injured.
Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s secretary of the national security and defence council, blamed Russian air defence systems for the explosion. In a later post on Friday, Russia‘s Defense Ministry said it downed a second Ukrainian missile near the city of Azov, which like Taganrog is in theAlexander Khinshtein
said in a Telegram post that an explosion had hit a major oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region, around 850 miles northwest of Taganrog. Security services had detained the person behind the refinery explosion as he was trying to leave Russia, he said. Describing the suspect as “an employee” at the refinery, Khinshtein added that he had previously “moved to Russia from Ukraine.”
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