By Euronews with AP
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One person has been killed and 19 injured following a Russian strike on Kyiv’s northern city of Vyshgorod on Sunday.
The region’s mayor said that children were among the wounded.
146 people have been evacuated from a high-rise building, with rescue efforts continuing through the night.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported intercepting 104 of the 122 drones launched by Russia overnight. Russia also launched two ballistic missiles from occupied Crimea.
At least five people have been killed and 39 injured in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, with casualties reported in several regions, including Kyiv Oblast.
The Kyiv City Military Administration said two people were killed in the strikes on the capital on Saturday. A woman died, and eight were wounded in a combined missile and drone attack on the broader Kyiv region, according to the regional police.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 29 people were wounded in Kyiv, noting that falling debris from intercepted Russian drones hit residential buildings. He also said the western part of Kyiv had lost power.
In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk stopped operations Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, which owns the terminal.
Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, confirmed that Ukraine had carried out the attack.
“Ukrainian special forces worked on the Russian Federation, its energy sector and infrastructure. In particular, naval drones managed to destroy one of the three oil tanker berths of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in the Novorossiysk area,” he wrote on Telegram.
Months of Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries and terminals have aimed to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue the war.
Meanwhile, Kyiv and its western allies say Russia is trying to cripple the Ukrainian power grid and deny civilians access to heat, light and running water for a fourth consecutive winter, in what Ukrainian officials call “weaponizing” the biting cold.
Top Trump administration officials are meeting Ukrainian negotiators in Florida this weekend, pushing to broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine and setting the stage for key talks planned this week in Moscow with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Zelenskyy has announced two new sanctions decisions against Russia “in the framework of the package synchronised with the United States.”
“Ukraine has applied sanctions against 26 Russian legal entities connected to the energy sector,” his office said. “Among them are Rosneft, its enterprises, and companies within the Lukoil Group. American sanctions hit the parts of the sector that provide around 55% of Russia’s oil production.”
Sanctions have also been applied to legal entities involved in the production and operation of Russian drones, including persons linked to the Rubicon centre, which tests new weapon models.