The attack on the Afipsky refinery resulted in a fire, which was quickly brought under control. RIA news agency quoted local officials as saying there were no reports of casualties or damage to infrastructure.
The Afipsky refinery is not far from the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, near the Ilsky refinery, which has been attacked several times this month.
Five killed in Lugansk
The Russian Control Center for Security in the Luhansk region revealed on Telegram that “the bombing that took place in the village of Karpaty (25 kilometers west of Luhansk) left five dead and 19 wounded.”
Initial information was given that the attack was carried out using High Mobility Missile Systems (HIMars) donated by the United States to Ukraine.
Evgeny Muravich, RTP correspondent in Moscow
According to the center, the Ukrainian forces fired four missiles, which damaged a shipyard under construction and a poultry farm building.
The Russian army largely occupies the Lugansk region, which borders Donetsk, and is one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow announced its annexation last September.
The regional governor of Shchepkino, a Russian town about seven kilometers from the border of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said that an attack by Ukrainian artillery left two people injured. The projectiles broke a window and damaged the roofs of an eight-story building, four homes, and a school.
Ukraine rarely claims responsibility for attacks in Russia or territory controlled by Moscow.
The attacks come as Kiev prepares to launch a counter-attack to try to drive Russian forces out of Ukrainian territory.
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