Ukraine claims to have attacked an oil depot in Russia, while Moscow claims new oil profits in the Donetsk region.

KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine said Sunday it had attacked an oil depot in southern Russia that supplies Kremlin troops. Five civilians were killed and 15 others wounded in the Russian attacks in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where Moscow has made further territorial gains.

Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement that Kyiv’s security services were responsible for a drone attack in the morning in Russia’s southern Kursk region on an oil depot used for the needs of the Russian military, which contains 11 tanks with a total volume of 7,000 cubic meters (about 247,202 cubic feet). It added that the attack “caused powerful explosions and a fire … presumably in containers with oil products.”

“The defense forces continue to take all measures to undermine the military and economic potential of the Russian occupiers and force the Russian Federation to stop its armed aggression against Ukraine,” the statement said.

On Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry said seven Ukrainian drones had been shot down overnight over Russian territory. A regional official said a drone attack had set fire to the oil depot in Kursk province. Acting regional governor Alexey Smirnov said firefighters were battling the blaze on Sunday morning after three fuel tanks burst into flames. Smirnov said no one was injured.

The Kursk region lies on the border with Ukraine’s Sumy province, where Ukraine has repeatedly attacked various targets on Russian territory, including oil depots and other military infrastructure, with drones and other weapons in recent months. Ukrainian politicians are putting pressure on Western allies to be able to use their modern and sophisticated weapons to attack more valuable targets on Russian territory.

Russian troops continued to advance in the war-torn eastern province of Donetsk on Sunday, pushing west toward the towns of Pokrovsk and Kurakhove. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its troops had taken control of two neighboring villages about 30 kilometers east of Pokrovsk, Prorohres and Yevhenivka. The day before, Moscow captured the nearby village of Lozuvatske, one of nearly a dozen villages it is said to have captured in the province this month.

Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, forcing millions of people to flee to neighboring countries. One of the Kremlin’s main war aims is control of all of Donetsk, part of the country’s industrial heartland that now bears the scars of years of fighting.

Five civilians died and 15 others were injured after Russian attacks on Donetsk region on Saturday and overnight, the region’s governor, Vadym Filashkin, reported on Telegram on Sunday. Shortly afterward, other Ukrainian officials said more civilians, including children, had been injured by Russian shelling in the east and south.

At least eight people were injured when Moscow troops attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Sunday, the city’s governor, Serhii Lysak, reported the same day. Lysak said the victims included a toddler and a 10-year-old girl, and six of them had to be hospitalized.

Russian artillery fire injured eight more civilians, including a 10-year-old and two teenagers, in a village in southern Ukraine’s Kherson province on Sunday, local official Roman Mrochko said.

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