Published on: 2025/06/16 17:00
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Russia has confirmed a major strike in Ukraine, targeting a key oil refinery. At the same time, it says Ukrainian drones attacked its drone production facility.
Russian Defence Ministry officials reported that a coordinated air-and-sea missile strike hit an oil refinery in Ukraine's Poltava region overnight on Sunday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strike as an assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure and said it was conducted "after the Americans asked us not to strike at Russian energy facilities."
In a separate incident on the same day, Moscow reported that Ukrainian drones struck a drone factory near Yelabuga in Tatarstan, causing a fire and killing at least one person.
Russian air defenses said they intercepted six Ukrainian drones.
The details of the strike on the drone factory were confirmed by Ukraine.
With a massive manhunt underway in the U.S. state of Minnesota after the shootings of Democratic state lawmakers, authorities on Sunday found the car used by the suspect, who allegedly posed as a police officer, while committing the crime.
Authorities say a 57-year-old suspect, identified as Vance Luther Boelter, disguised in a police-style uniform and latex mask, carried out coordinated shootings at two locations in the Minneapolis suburbs in the early hours of Saturday morning.
State Senator John Hoffman and his wife in Champlin were shot and critically wounded first, before former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed at their home in Brooklyn Park.
Officers confronted the suspect at Hortman's residence, but Boelter escaped on foot.
His car was recovered, along with a hit list which included the names of around 70 Democratic politicians.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the shooting a "politically motivated assassination," and the FBI issued a 50,000 U.S. dollar reward for information leading to the suspect's capture.
In India, at least four people were killed, and more than thirty others injured on Sunday after a bridge collapsed at a popular tourist location.
According to reports, at least 20 people fell into the water when the bridge over the Indrayani River in Kundamala, Pune, collapsed due to heavy monsoon rain.
Search and rescue efforts are ongoing for those who remain unaccounted for.
Despite being flagged as structurally unsound, enforcement lapses allowed visitors, as well as bicycles, to continue using the footbridge.
Authorities warn the death toll could rise, as rescue operations continue.
Bolivia's city of La Paz celebrated its annual Gran Poder, or the Great Power festival, over the weekend, blending traditional Catholic devotion with indigenous Andean culture.
The streets were filled with vibrant dances, prayers, and music, dedicated to a 17th-century painting of Jesus Christ.
While the day of the Great Power is typically exuberant, the event was more subdued this year, with a moment of silence for six people killed in clashes between protesters and police following the disqualification of a former President. Choi Chi-hee, Arirang News.
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