Ukrainian drones struck energy and industrial targets in several Russian regions overnight, local authorities said on Sunday, in an increasingly intense campaign of attacks against infrastructure, writes Reuters.
In Saratov, a region on the banks of the Volga River that is home to several oil refineries and has been the target of regular attacks by Ukraine in recent years, Governor Roman Busargin said on Telegram that “civilian infrastructure” had been damaged.
In the Kirov region, located northeast of Moscow and about 1,300 km from Ukrainian-controlled territory, Governor Alexander Sokolov said the drones struck a facility in the Urzhumsky district.
Governors of Rostov, Voronezh and Belgorod regions, all bordering Ukraine, also reported attacks, with three civilians injured in Belgorod.
In the Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, Moscow-backed governor Sergei Aksionov said authorities were introducing restrictions on the sale of gasoline.
He did not say why, but Ukraine has been attacking fuel infrastructure in southwestern Russia near Crimea for months.
Russia depends on oil, natural gas and coal export revenues to fund its war machine, which make up a large part of the federal budget from which money is allocated for military spending to support the more than four-year-old war.
