Russia and Ukraine accused each other of air strikes on Wednesday, which would trigger fires and damaged infrastructure after their leaders agreed to a limited ceasefire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities but refused to endorse the full 30-day ceasefire sought by U.S. President Donald Trump in a call with Russian leaders on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to propose a 30-day ceasefire before Putin-Trump calls, later supporting a more limited ceasefire for energy targets.
But after Russia launched air strikes earlier on Wednesday, Zelensky urged the world to stop any attempt to delay the war.
“Russia is attacking civilian infrastructure and people – now attacking civilian infrastructure and people,” said Andriy Yermak, chief of staff of Zelenskyy, in the telegram.
Regional authorities in Sumi, northeast Ukraine said the Russian drone attack damaged two hospitals without injuries but forced the evacuation of patients and hospital staff.
The region’s governor Mykola Kalashnyk said earlier Wednesday that a 60-year-old man was injured in a Russian drone attack in Russia, surrounding the Ukrainian capital surrounding the Ukrainian capital.
Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 40 drones targeting Ukraine in the wake of the phone call between Trump and Putin.
Russian troops also attacked Ukraine’s national railway network’s power system on Wednesday morning with drones.
“There is a deoxygenated part, but the train continues to run as planned,” the state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia wrote in a telegram.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they agreed to an immediate 30-day energy and infrastructure ceasefire in the Russian-Ukraine war after a long call.
Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that its air defense forces shot down 72 of the 145 drones launched by Russia in the overnight attack. It added that 56 drones were lost in Ukrainian troops that the Ukrainian military used electronic warfare to redirect.
“The Russian attack affected Sumi, Odessa, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev and Chernishev regions,” the military said in a telegram.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its troops destroyed 57 Ukrainian drones, including 35 in the Kursk region. The ministry only reported how many people were launched by Ukraine but not destroyed.
Authorities in Krasnodar, southern Russia, said earlier Wednesday that the Ukrainian drone attack triggered a small fire at an oil warehouse near the village of Kavkazskaya.
The government of southern Russia said in an article on the telegram messaging app that no one was injured in the fire, spread over 20 square meters (215 square feet), but evacuated 30 employees.
“Works at the facility have been suspended,” the government said.
The Russian-shooted news telegram released a video about lightning at night on what looks like an industrial zone.
Shot said the Kavkazskaya oil transfer point is an important facility designed to transport Russian oil out of the export railway and into the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline system.
Reuters cannot independently verify the shooting report.
Russia’s aviation surveillanceman Rosaviatsia said it is suspending flights from Kazan Airport, Nizhny Novgorod and Russia’s Nizhnekamsk, hundreds of kilometers east of Moscow to “keep air safety.”
The agency did not say what the reason for the suspension was, but flights were usually suspended when there were reports of drone attacks.
