Local officials claim that Ukrainian drones have hit targets in three Russian regions.

Local officials reported that Ukrainian drones had struck energy and industrial targets in the Russian regions of Krasnodar and Kaluga over the course of one night. The Ukrainian military confirmed two of these three attacks.

Local authorities reported that debris from a drone struck the Ilskiy Oil Refinery in Krasnodar. The incident did not cause any injuries, but it ignited a fire which was later extinguished.

The Russian media reported that the governor's press service in Almetyevsk, located around 1,400 km (870 miles), had said that a fire broke out at an energy storage facility.

In a press release, Vyacheslav Shapsha, the local governor, said that a third strike had caused a fire at an industrial facility, which was not named, in the town of Lyudinovo, in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow.

In a press release, the Ukrainian military confirmed that it had attacked?the facilities? in Krasnodar? and?Tatarstan? Kyiv has intensified its strikes against Russian energy infrastructure over the past?months in an effort to cut off Moscow’s sources of funding for its military operation in Ukraine. Reporting by Felix Light, Editing by Andrew Osborn & Andrew Heavens

(source: Reuters)