Kyiv: Ukraine’s military announced on Monday that it successfully struck a large oil terminal on the occupied Crimean peninsula overnight, while Russia reported capturing another village in eastern Ukraine as part of its ongoing offensive.
Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure in recent months, aiming to disrupt the revenue streams Moscow uses to fund its invasion, now in its third year.
“At night, a successful strike was carried out on the enemy’s offshore oil terminal in temporarily occupied Feodosia, Crimea,” the Ukrainian military posted on social media.
Russian-installed authorities in Crimea confirmed that a fire broke out at an oil facility in the Black Sea port town of Feodosia, home to about 70,000 people. They reported no casualties.
Russia’s defence ministry stated that 12 Ukrainian attack drones were shot down over Crimea overnight, out of 21 launched by Kyiv targeting Russian positions.
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The Feodosia terminal is the largest oil product transshipment hub in Crimea, supplying oil to meet the needs of Russia’s occupation forces. Ukraine vowed to continue such attacks, calling them fair retaliation for Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure that have left millions without power.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defence ministry reported capturing the village of Grodivka in eastern Ukraine, near the key city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Grodivka, with a pre-war population of around 2,000, is the latest in a string of settlements to fall to Russian forces as they advance towards Pokrovsk, a strategic logistics hub.
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Last week, Ukraine confirmed its withdrawal from the mining town of Vuhledar, also in Donetsk, marking one of Russia’s most significant territorial gains in weeks.
In other developments, Ukrainian authorities reported that three civilians were killed in separate Russian attacks overnight. Two brothers, aged 35 and 38, were killed in the eastern Sumy region, while a 61-year-old woman was killed in the southern Kherson region. The governor of Kherson later reported that a Russian strike had wounded 13 people and damaged several residential buildings as well as an educational facility.
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In the Zaporizhzhia region, three people were wounded in Russian attacks on infrastructure, according to local officials. Russia had claimed to annex Zaporizhzhia, along with three other Ukrainian regions, in 2022.
Kyiv’s air force reported that Russia launched several missiles and dozens of drones overnight, with two missiles shot down over the capital and a third exploding near an airfield in the Khmelnytsky region. Debris from the downed missiles reportedly landed near a kindergarten, but no injuries were reported.
