INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine on Wednesday said that its forces had hit a Russian oil depot that services Moscow's air force hundreds of kilometers from the
warring countries' shared border.The apparent attack is the latest in a series of escalating cross-border strikes by Moscow and Kyiv
general staff added.Russian officials acknowledged in earlier statements that Ukraine had attacked the region with unmanned aerial
vehicles.The defense ministry said its air defense systems had downed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 11 over the Saratov
region.Regional governor Roman Busargin said that an emergency response team had been dispatched to an industrial facility where a fire had
broken out after a Ukrainian drone attack, without elaborating on the type of facility.Busargin said that no one was wounded in the
attack.Kyiv has claimed that its previous attacks on oil facilities were part of ongoing efforts to dent Russian energy revenues that are
Russian occupiers and significantly reduces their ability to strike at peaceful Ukrainian cities and civilian objects," the general staff
said.Kyiv, meanwhile, said overnight that Ukrainian air defense systems had downed 41 Russian drones over the country while another 22 were
downed by electronic jamming systems or were lost by air force radars.Separately, in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, authorities
said two people had been killed and five more wounded by Russian artillery and attack drones.
