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Ukraine updates: Kyiv strikes oil terminal in Crimea

Published October 7, 2024last updated October 7, 2024

The Ukrainian military has said it hit an oil terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia in Crimea. The Ukrainian Air Force has said it shot down 32 drones and two Kinzhal missiles launched by Moscow. DW has more.

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Smoke billows from a fire-hit oil tank farm in the Black Sea coast city of Feodosia, southeastern Crimea
An oil tank farm in the city of Feodosia, Crimea, was hit on MondayImage: Sergei Malgavko/TASS/dpa/picture alliance
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What you need to know

An oil facility in the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea was ablaze on Monday after Ukraine said it had struck the terminal. 

Meanwhile, Russia launched two Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at Ukraine, but Ukrainian authorities said there was no major damage or casualties from the strikes.

This blog looking at the developments regarding Russia's war in Ukraine on Monday, October 7 is now closed.

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October 7, 2024

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Russian state media outlet VGTRK said on Monday that its online operation had come under an "unprecedented" overnight cyberattack.

The media outlet, which owns Russia's main national TV channels and some regional channels and radio stations, said on Telegram that radio and television broadcasting were, nevertheless, still working as normal.

"Our state media holding, one of the largest, has faced an unprecedented hacker attack on its digital infrastructure," Peskov told reporters, saying VGTRK was working to overcome the consequences of the attack.

"Specialists are working to find out all the circumstances, to understand where the traces left behind by those who organized this hacker attack on the critical infrastructure object lead."

Reuters later cited a Ukrainian government source that claimed Ukrainian hackers were responsible.

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October 7, 2024

Russian court jails American citizen after serving as Ukraine mercenary

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a US citizen to six years and 10 months in prison.

He was convicted on the grounds of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine.

Prosecutors said the convicted man was provided with training, weapons and ammunition when he allegedly signed a contract with the Ukrainian military after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. He went on to fight alongside those forces until he was captured on April 2 the same year.

Russian investigators said he was paid $1,000 (€912) per month to serve in a Ukrainian territorial defense unit in the city of Izyum. He had been living there since 2014. In April of that year, Russian-backed militants seized towns in the eastern Donbas region.

According to Russian state media, the 72-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge and got a reduced sentence due to his age.

He is the first American known to have been convicted on charges of fighting as a mercenary in the conflict.

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October 7, 2024

Russia opens criminal probes against foreign journalists for crossing Kursk border — FSB

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Monday that it has opened criminal probes against 14 foreign journalists over the last eight weeks for illegally crossing the border between Ukraine and the Kursk region of Russia.

The FSB said the journalists were from France 24 and Switzerland's CH Media.

In August, Ukraine launched a surprise attack on the Kursk region, taking territory around the border town of Sudzha in the first sustained seizure of Russian territory since Moscow's full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022.

According to Russian law, crossing the border illegally could result in a five-year prison sentence.

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Skip next section Russia fires dozens of drones and two hypersonic missiles
October 7, 2024

Russia fires dozens of drones and two hypersonic missiles

The Ukrainian Air Force said Monday that it had shot down 32 Russian-launched drones and two hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.

One of the Kinzhal missiles hit the Starokostyantyniv airfield in Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi region.

All of the strikes occurred overnight.

Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's city military administration, said there was no major damage or casualties after debris came down in the Ukrainian capital.

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Skip next section Crimea oil facility struck, says Ukraine
October 7, 2024

Crimea oil facility struck, says Ukraine

Ukraine said Monday it had struck an oil facility overnight in Crimea.

Kyiv has increased the number of strikes targeting Russia's energy sector in recent months aiming to hit revenues used by Moscow to fund its invasion.

"At night, a successful strike was carried out on the enemy's offshore oil terminal in temporarily occupied Feodosia, Crimea," the Ukrainian military said in a post on social media.

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014, said a fire had broken out at an oil depot in the Black Sea port town, adding that there were no casualties.

The Russian Defense Ministry meanwhile said that 12 Ukrainian attack drones had been downed over the peninsula overnight, of a total of 21 deployed by Kyiv against Russia.

"The Feodosia terminal is the largest in Crimea in terms of transshipment of oil products, which were used, among other things, to meet the needs of the Russian occupation army," the Ukrainian military said.

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