Ukraine hits behind front lines as Odesa blasts rock Greek PM visit

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KYIV: Ukraine stepped up attacks behind Russian lines on Wednesday (Mar 6) with the apparent killing of a Russian election official in a car bomb and a drone assault on a metals plant.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was holding talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Odesa on Mar 6, 2024. KYIV: Ukraine stepped up attacks behind Russian lines on Wednesday with the apparent killing of a Russian election official in a car bomb and a drone assault on a metals plant.

Ukraine's navy told AFP the attack on port infrastructure killed five people and left an unspecified number wounded. The hit comes just days after 12 people, including five children, were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in the Black Sea city, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians for weeks.Authorities in the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine said a local election official had been killed in a car bombing it blamed on Kyiv.

The Moscow-installed head of the Zaporizhzhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, blamed Ukrainian authorities for the attack and said they were trying to"intimidate" residents ahead of the ballot. Videos posted on Russian social media showed thick grey smoke billowing as a fire raged inside a cylindrical fuel storage tank.Ukrainian forces have launched a wave of drone attacks at Russian energy facilities in recent months, trying to target the country's vital energy and gas sector that it says fuels the invasion.

 

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