Ukraine hits Russia's energy targets after US-brokered ceasefire ends

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• Ukraine attacks Russia’s energy facilities as ceasefire expires

• Astrakhan refinery, port of Taman are targeted

MOSCOW, May 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russia’s oil refineries and ports on Wednesday, two days after a three-day ceasefire proposed by U.S. ​President Donald Trump expired.

Ukraine has been targeting ​Russian oil infrastructure to undercut Moscow’s revenues from ⁠the energy sector and dent its military might ​as the four-year war grinds on.

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Russia’s defence ministry said ​on Wednesday that 286 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted and destroyed over Russian regions overnight.

In the southern Krasnodar region, drone fragments ​fell near an industrial facility, causing a fire ​in the village of Volna, where Taman port’s oil products and ‌other ⁠terminals are located, regional authorities said.

Debris from a separate Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at a gas processing plant, which also produces fuel, in Russia’s ​southern Astrakhan region, ​the region’s ⁠authorities said.

“All enemy aircraft were either shot down or neutralised by electronic warfare systems,” ​Igor Babushkin, the local governor, wrote on ​Telegram. “The ⁠debris caused a fire.”

Babushkin said there were no casualties or injuries and that the fire was expected to ⁠be ​extinguished within a few hours.

The ​plant is located near the Caspian Sea, some 1,675 km (1,040 miles) ​from the Ukrainian border.

Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Sharon Singleton

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