Russian drones injure 4 in Ukraine's south, Ukrainian officials say

KYIV, UKRAINE — 

Russia launched a barrage of drones connected Ukraine successful an overnight onslaught connected Friday, injuring 4 radical and damaging a infirmary and a atom warehouse successful the confederate Odesa region, officials said.

Ukraine's aerial defenses changeable down 59 of 102 Russian drones, the aerial unit said. It said that 37 drones were "lost," referring to the usage of physics warfare to redirect them.

Russian drones caused harm successful the northeastern Sumy region, the Odesa portion successful the southbound and the cardinal Cherkasy Region.

Oleh Kiper, the Odesa determination governor, said that 4 civilians, including a doctor, were injured successful drone attacks targeting the metropolis of Chornomorsk.

The strikes besides partially disrupted energy supplies successful the metropolis and damaged the city's hospital, an administrative building, a atom warehouse, a residential house, and respective trucks, helium said connected the Telegram app.

Regional officials successful the cardinal Cherkasy portion said that drone debris damaged an flat gathering successful the region.

Meanwhile, an lipid refinery successful Russia's confederate Volgograd portion caught occurrence aft an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has present been enactment out, the determination politician said connected Friday.

Andrei Bocharov, the governor, said successful a connection connected the Telegram messaging app that Russian aerial defenses had repelled an onslaught connected his portion by 8 drones.

"As a effect of falling debris from 1 of the drones, a occurrence broke retired connected the territory of an lipid refinery, which was promptly extinguished. One injured refinery idiosyncratic was hospitalized," helium said.

Andriy Kovalenko, the caput of Ukraine's Centre for Countering Disinformation, said connected Telegram that the Volgograd lipid refinery, which helium described arsenic 1 of Russia's largest, had been struck.

SHOT, a Russian quality outlet with contacts successful the information services, said 4 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed implicit a 2nd refinery successful Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow.

Ukraine has carried retired predominant aerial attacks connected Russian refineries, lipid depots and concern sites to cripple cardinal infrastructure underpinning Russia's warfare effort.

This week it claimed to person struck and acceptable connected occurrence a Lukoil refinery, Russia's 4th largest, successful the Nizhny Novgorod region, eastbound of Moscow.

Sources astatine Lukoil denied that the NORSI refinery was hit, and said accumulation was not affected. Petrochemical institution Sibur said determination had been a drone onslaught and occurrence astatine its adjacent plant.

Russia is presently feeding much crude lipid done its refineries successful the anticipation of boosting substance exports aft caller U.S. sanctions connected Russian tankers and traders made exports of unprocessed crude much difficult, sources told Reuters this week.

A Ukrainian drone onslaught past week forced a refinery successful Ryazan, southeast of Moscow, to suspend operations. Russia's Defense Ministry said successful a connection connected Friday that 49 Ukrainian drones had been downed implicit the state overnight, including 25 successful the confederate Rostov portion and 8 successful the Volgograd region.

Drones had besides been detected and destroyed successful the Kursk, Yaroslavl, Belgorod, Voronezh, and Krasnodar regions, it said.