Russian air attacks kill five at Ukraine’s Naftogaz gas facilities

Three workers and 2 exigency work rescuers ​killed and 37 others wounded, Naftogaz CEO Serhiy ​Koretskyi says.

At slightest 5 radical person been killed successful Russian aerial strikes connected Ukrainian state-run state facilities successful the Poltava and Kharkiv regions, officials said, a time aft Kyiv and Moscow announced unilateral ceasefires to instrumentality effect aboriginal this week.

Three employees and 2 rescue workers were killed and 37 radical were wounded successful the overnight rocket and drone barrage, Serhiy Koretskyi, the CEO of Ukraine’s authorities vigor institution Naftogaz said connected Tuesday.

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“We person sustained important harm and accumulation losses. This was a combined onslaught involving UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and ballistic missiles,” said Koretskyi.

He added that the onslaught chopped state proviso to astir 3,500 customers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian authorities had shown “utter cynicism” by announcing a ceasefire and past launching rocket and drone attacks connected his country.

“Russia could cease occurrence astatine immoderate moment, and this would halt the warfare and our responses. Peace is needed, and existent steps are needed to execute it. Ukraine volition enactment successful kind,” helium said connected X.

A time earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a two-day ceasefire successful the warfare with Ukraine connected May 8 and 9 to people Russia’s World War II victory. Zelenskyy countered with his projected intermission successful warring starting connected the nighttime of May 5.

Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia had launched 11 ballistic missiles and 164 drones astatine the state since 6pm (15:00 GMT) connected Monday. One rocket and 149 drones were changeable down oregon neutralised, it said, but 8 missiles and 14 drones struck 14 locations.

Reporting from Kyiv, Al Jazeera’s Audrey Macalpine said Russian rocket attacks were posing a situation for Ukraine.

“Ukraine has go accustomed to intercepting drones regularly, but it inactive lacks capable means to intercept, particularly ballistic missiles, which is wherefore you perceive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy truthful often pleading with his European partners for much aerial defence, for things similar Patriots, due to the fact that they are the lone weapons that are susceptible of intercepting ballistic threats,” she said.

Ukrainian attacks connected Russia

Meanwhile, Ukraine attacked 1 of Russia’s biggest lipid refineries connected Tuesday, sparking a occurrence successful an concern country of the Russian municipality of Kirishi successful the Leningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said.

“The enemy’s main people was the [Kirishinefteorgsintez] lipid refinery,” Drozdenko said, adding that determination were nary casualties arsenic a effect of the attack.

The occurrence was contained, and firefighting operations were nearing completion, helium said.

According to manufacture sources, the Kirishinefteorgsintez lipid refinery, 1 of the largest successful the country, processed 17.5 cardinal metric tonnes of lipid (350,000 barrels per day) successful 2024, which amounted to 6.6 percent of Russia’s full lipid refining volumes.

It produced 2 cardinal tonnes of petrol, 7.1 cardinal tonnes of diesel, 6.1 cardinal tonnes of substance lipid and 600,000 tonnes of bitumen.

The Russian Ministry of Defence said its aerial defence forces destroyed 289 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian regions overnight.