Every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the situation in Ukraine. This Saturday, October 12, 2024, discover the latest news around this conflict.
A fuel depot hit
Ukrainian forces said Saturday they had struck a fuel depot in the Moscow-occupied Luhansk region, the Ukrainian army said. “The site was used to store oil and petroleum products, among other things, for the needs of the Russian army. A fire was reported in the area of the site,” the Ukrainian command said in a message published on Telegram.
The fire broke out on this site which, according to the general staff, supplies the Kremlin’s armed forces and had already been hit “previously” par “Ukrainian armaments”.
Moscow has not confirmed this attack. kyiv regularly targets Russian industrial and military sites, in response to the bombings that have beset Ukraine since the February 2022 invasion.
Drone attack
Ukraine and Russia reported enemy drone attacks targeting their territories overnight from Friday to Saturday, with kyiv saying it neutralized 24 Russian drones while Moscow claimed to have shot down 47 Ukrainian machines.
In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had fired missiles at Ukraine from the Belgorod region, without specifying the number or type.
According to this source, Moscow also launched 28 drones on Ukraine, 24 of which were destroyed by anti-aircraft defenses over the regions of Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson.
Separate Russian bombings also injured four people in the Zaporizhia region (south) in the morning, the head of the regional administration said on Saturday.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had neutralized 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 17 over the Krasnodar region (southwest), 16 over the Sea of Azov, 12 over above the Kursk region.
In the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in the village of Ustinka, the governor reported on Telegram on Saturday.
The governor of the Krasnodar region had told him earlier, also on Telegram, that Ukrainian drone attacks had damaged three houses and a car, without causing any casualties.
