Russia bombed 118 localities in 24 hours, a level never reached “since the beginning of the year”, accuses kyiv

A deluge of fire fell on Ukraine. Russia “bombed 118 localities in ten regions” over the last 24 hours, accused Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko on Wednesday, November 1. “This is the largest number of towns and villages to suffer an attack since the start of the year”, he said. The overnight shelling killed one person in the Kharkiv region and another in the Kherson area, local officials reported.

A Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk, which did not cause any casualties, required the dispatch of more than a hundred firefighters to fight the fire that followed for several hours, the minister added. Ukraine and its Western allies fear that Russia will intensify its attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure before winter, as it did last year.