Ukraine ‘entirely justified’ to plan strikes against Russian energy, military targets in retaliation for Kyiv attacks, Zelenskyy says
Back to Ukraine, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine will hit Russia’s oil industry, military production and those responsible for “committing war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians” after the latest Russian attacks killed at least 24 people in Kyiv.
Ukraine has launched a large-scale long-range drone attack targeting several regions in Russia including the huge Ryazan oil refinery, after three days of massive strikes by Moscow against Ukraine.
Kyiv’s attack on Friday followed a series of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, including on the capital, Kyiv, where a cruise missile hit an apartment block on Thursday, killing 24 people including three children.
The final death toll in Kyiv emerged as emergency teams finished digging through the rubble of a nine-storey block which was hit in what the Ukrainian air force said was Russia’s biggest barrage of the country since it launched its all-out invasion in February 2022.
