Ukrainian drone attack overnight at an oil depot Russian Sochi’s Black Sea Resort launched a big fire, Russian officials said on Sunday, as the two countries attacked and the Ukrainian President announced a prisoner exchange.
More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the explosion, hit a fuel tank after debris from a dowed drone, Krasnodar regional village. Veniumin Kondratyev said on Telegram. On social media, the video was seen showing the huge pillars of the smoke billing over the oil depot.
Russia’s Civil Aviation Authority, Rosaviyatsia temporarily stopped flights at Sochi airport.
Further North, officials of the Voronies region said that four people were injured in another Ukrainian drone strike.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air rescue shot 93 Ukrainian drones on Russia and the Black Sea on Sunday.
Meanwhile, in southern Ukraine, a Russian missile strike hit a residential area in a residential area in the city of Micolive, according to the state emergency services, injuring seven people.
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday Russia launched 76 drones and seven missiles against Ukraine. It said that 60 drones and a missile were intercepted, but 16 other and six missiles targeted eight places.
After a Russian drone and missile attack on Thursday, there were mutual attacks at the end of one of the most deadly weeks in Ukraine in recent months. 31 people killedFive children, and more than 150 injured.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued to attack Russian President Vladimir Putin after continuing a short time limit – August 8 -. Peace effort to progress,
Trump said on Thursday that special messenger Steve Witchoff The new economic sanctions are going to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in his war with Ukraine and threatened new economic sanctions if progress has not been made.
Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky said on Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to exchange 1,200 prisoners after their latest round of talks in Istanbul in July.
“There is an agreement to exchange 1,200 people,” he wrote on X, saying that the list of individuals was being worked on the list to be done and “they were working to unblock the return of our citizens.”
There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Zelansky also said that he discussed with top Ukrainian officials “the conversation track – in particular, implementation of agreements during meetings with the Russian side in Istanbul, as well as a new meeting preparation.”
Each of the three Conversation round The prisoner has been exchanged between this year’s countries, but there was no success in reaching the ceasefire.
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