World·Ukraine
Russia launches 227 drones overnight; one killed in Rivne as outages hit seven regions; fire at Russia's Afipsky refinery
Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 227 drones from Thursday evening into Friday morning and that air defenses shot down or neutralized 196, Euronews reported; Rivne Oblast head Oleksandr Koval said one man was killed in a morning attack, and three people were injured overnight in Kyiv Oblast's Boryspil district. Reuters reported that Russian attacks on energy infrastructure caused new power outages in seven regions — Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv — with Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov saying the capital region remains most difficult. Euronews said a fire broke out at Russia's Afipsky oil refinery overnight after a drone attack, a site Ukraine's General Staff says can process about 6.25 million tonnes of oil a year.