Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

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Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

Russian oil refinery damaged after weekend ******* from Ukraine, state media reports

Russia’s Slavyansk oil refinery was damaged in a drone ******* from Ukraine over the weekend, Russian state news agency Tass reported on Monday.

“There is damage. Their scale and size will be determined,” Eduard Trudnev, a security official for the refinery told Tass, according to a

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translation. He added that the vulnerabilities of the refinery were established and in the process of being addressed.

The refinery suspended operations and a damage assessment was being carried out following the *******, Tass previously reported.

Roman Sinyagovsky, head of the Slavyansky district, on Sunday said that six drones fell onto the grounds of the oil refinery, according to a

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. No casualties were reported initially, he said.

CNBC could not independently verify developments on the ground.

— Sophie Kiderlin

Russia sends condolences to Iran following the deaths of ‘true friends’

Russia has sent its condolences to ally Iran after it was confirmed that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian ***** in a helicopter ****** Sunday.

In this pool photograph distributed by Russian news agency Sputnik on December 7, 2023, Russia’s President Vladimir ****** (L) shakes hands with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the ministers had “always been known in Russia as true friends.”

“The Russian Federation sincerely expresses its condolences to the families and friends of those ******* in the plane ****** and to the entire friendly Iranian people,” Lavrov said, state news agency Tass reported.

Russia and Iran’s alliance has deepened since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with

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for use against Ukraine. Iran denies supplying weapons to Russia.

— Holly Ellyatt

Air raid alarms sound in Belgorod again after attacks injure 13

There have been several air raid alarms in Russia’s Belgorod region Monday morning, with the regional governor warning residents to seek shelter.

Earlier, Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov

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that the town of Shebekino had been attacked by a Ukrainian drone. No civilians were injured but two apartment buildings were damaged.

The latest *******, which has not been confirmed by Ukraine, comes a day after various towns in the border region of Belgorod were targeted on Sunday, leaving 13 people injured.

Belgorod has become a focal point for Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s border regions; Russia says one of the main reasons it has launched a new offensive in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine (and adjacent to Belgorod) is to create a “buffer zone” to protect its border regions.

Russian officials in the region of Belgorod, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2024.

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Gladkov said Ukrainian forces attacked Shebekino with multiple-launch rockets on Sunday, injuring 11 people, including three children, and damaging apartment buildings and cars in the town. To the east of the town, the village of Rzhevka was also shelled, he said, injuring two people and damaging one house.

CNBC was unable to verify the reports and Ukraine has not commented on the attacks; it rarely does when it comes to strikes on Russian territory. Both Russia and Ukraine say they don’t target civilians or civilian infrastructure.

— Holly Ellyatt

Day of mourning declared in Kharkiv after 11 ******* in spate of Russian attacks

A day of mourning has been declared in the northeast Kharkiv region on Monday after a popular leisure spot and several villages were shelled by Russian forces on Sunday, leaving 11 civilians ***** and others wounded.

“May 20 is the Day of Mourning in the Kharkiv region,” Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, said on Telegram late on Sunday after a number of separate attacks.

“As a result of the shelling of the villages of Kivsharivka, Novoosynove [in the Kupiansk district] and the Malodanyliv community [on the outskirts of Kharkiv city], the occupiers took the lives of 11 people. Among the ***** is a pregnant woman,” he said.

Kharkiv has become the prime target of Russian attacks since its forces launched a new offensive in the border region on May 10.

A lakeside recreation spot in Cherkasska Lozova on the outskirts of Kharkiv city was also among the areas attacked on Sunday, leaving at least five people ***** and 16 injured, Syniehubov said, among them two ambulance workers.

Law enforcement officers work at the site of a Russian missile strike after an ******* on the Berig family recreation center in Cherkasska Lozova, Kharkiv region, Ukraine on May 19, 2024. The incident left at least five people ***** and 15 others injured. Among the ***** was a woman who was seven months pregnant.

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He accused Russia of carrying out a “double-tap” strike in which an initial ******* is followed up by a second in order to ***** members of the emergency services attending the scene. Russia says it does not target civilians. In a separate *******, one person was ******* in Russian shelling in Vovchansk, a border town that Russian forces are believed to partially occupy.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked the country’s Western allies to provide it with additional air defense systems to protect Kharkiv.

Commenting on Telegram Sunday, Zelenskyy said “the world can stop Russian ******* – and for this the lack of political will of the leaders must be overcome. Two “Patriots” [missile defense systems] will fundamentally change the situation for Kharkiv.”

—️ Holly Ellyatt

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