Ukraine says it has struck some key oil and military facilities on Russian territory. A blaze that broke out near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant after Ukrainian shelling has been brought under control. DW has the latest.
Sochi hit by Ukrainian drone attack, Russian official says
A Ukrainian drone attack has ignited a fire at an oil depot in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russian official Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram.
Kondratyev is the regional governor of Krasnodar Krai, a Russian federal subject that includes Sochi.
Kondratyev said firefighting efforts have begun to take out the blaze in Sochi’s Adler district.
Flights at Sochi’s airport were halted after the attack, according to Russia’s civil aviation authority.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the reported attack.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies say they’ve uncovered corruption related to drone procurement
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said Saturday that they had uncovered a major graft scheme that procured military drones and signal jamming systems at inflated prices.
The development comes just two days after the agencies’ independence was restored following major protests, prompting a policy reversal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a move to take it away resulted in the country’s biggest protests since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
In a statement published by both NABU and SAPO on social media, the agencies said they had caught a current lawmaker, two officials and some national guard personnel taking bribes.
“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with supplier companies at deliberately inflated prices,” it said, adding that the offenders had received kickbacks of up to 30% of a contract’s cost. Four people have so far been arrested.
“There can only be zero tolerance for corruption, clear teamwork to expose corruption and, as a result, a just sentence,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
Earlier this week, Zelenskyy had to row back plans to give his government more powers and independence of the country’s anti-corruption agencies.
This climb down came of thousands of people took to the streets of Kyiv to express anger the Ukrainian president’s decision to have the country’s anti-corruption bodies under the control of state prosecutors.
India to continue buying oil from Russia: report
India will keep purchasing oil from Russia despite US President Donald Trump’s threats of penalties.
This is according to two Indian government sources and reported on by the Reuters news agency, via the New York Times.
“These are long-term oil contracts,” Reuters reported one of the sources as saying. “It is not so simple to just stop buying overnight.”
Trump last month suggested on social media that India would face additional penalties for purchases of Russian arms and oil.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant brought under control, says Russia
A fire that broke out near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after Ukrainian shelling has subsided after being brought under control, the Moscow-installed administration of the Russian-held plant in Ukraine said on Saturday.
Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the first weeks of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which got underway in February 2022.
Since Moscow took the plant, both sides have accused each other of firing or taking other measures that could increases the danger of a nuclear accident.
Source : https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-kyiv-says-it-hit-russian-oil-military-facilities/live-73509330