Ukrainian drones hit targets in three Russian regions, local officials say

MOSCOW, Jan 1 (Reuters) - ⁠Ukrainian drones ⁠struck ‍energy and industrial targets across the Russian regions of Krasnodar, Tatarstan and Kaluga ‍overnight, local officials said on Thursday, and ​the Ukrainian military confirmed it had carried out two ​of the three attacks.

In the southern region of Krasnodar, debris from a drone hit the Ilskiy oil refinery in Krasnodar, ​causing no casualties but igniting a fire that was later extinguished, local authorities said.

In ​the oil-rich Volga River region of Tatarstan, around 1,400 km (870 miles) ‌from Ukraine, Russian media cited the local governor's press service as saying that an ​energy storage facility in ⁠the city of Almetyevsk had been hit, causing a blaze that was later ‌put out.

A third strike caused a fire at an unnamed industrial facility in the town of Lyudinovo ‌in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, local governor ‌Vyacheslav Shapsha said in a statement.

The Ukrainian military confirmed in a statement that it had struck the facilities in ‍Krasnodar and Tatarstan. Kyiv has been intensifying strikes against Russian energy infrastructure ⁠in recent months, aiming to cut off Moscow's sources of financing for its military campaign in Ukraine.

(Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Felix LightEditing by Andrew Osborn and Andrew Heavens)

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