Ukraine’s military says it struck an oil refinery, storage facility and military airfield inside Russia, in one of its largest cross-border drone operations since the war began.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said on Saturday that its drones had hit the Ryazan oil refinery, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, sparking a fire on the site. The Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in Russia’s Voronezh region, which borders northeastern Ukraine, was also targeted, the statement said.
The SBU intelligence agency separately said it had hit Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield, used to launch long-range drones against Ukraine, as well as an electronics factory in Penza that it said supplies Russia’s defence industry.
Russia’s defence ministry said its air defences had downed 338 Ukrainian drones overnight, without specifying how many were launched. Ukraine’s air force said it destroyed 45 of 53 Russian drones fired towards its territory in the same period.
On the eastern front, Russia’s defence ministry said its troops had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in the Donetsk region on Saturday. The claim could not be independently verified. Russian forces control nearly 20% of Ukraine’s territory in the east and south after more than three years of war.
There has been no immediate comment from Moscow on the reported strikes against its energy and military infrastructure.
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The explosion at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday afternoon killed at least 12 people and injured a further 309, according to Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority. The airport remains closed until further notice.
One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a fresh attack on Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen's Houthis killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.
Yemen's Houthis renewed warning to airlines, airport workers, and travellers against using Saudi airports, saying the warning should be taken seriously and that the kingdom “bore responsibility for failed interceptions”, a day after an attack on Riyadh's international airport that killed 12 people.
The Houthi movement has escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting the airport in Riyadh and other cities, killing more than a dozen people.
Ukraine is ready to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries if Moscow also halts strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
The Kremlin on Monday rejected a 60-day ceasefire idea proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to allow his country to hold presidential elections, saying it wanted an overall peace deal instead.
Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 12 October 2026 with the top five natural disasters happening around the world.
The Houthi movement has escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting the airport in Riyadh and other cities, killing more than a dozen people.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that Ukraine is ready to respect the energy ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, but only if Russia does the same, saying Moscow has already violated the agreement.
China has announced sanctions against Belize’s foreign minister and Paraguay’s communications minister over their countries’ diplomatic ties with Taiwan. The move comes as Beijing continues to pressure the few remaining nations that maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taipei.
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