MOSCOW: A Ukrainian drone attack triggered a fire at an oil refinery in Russia overnight, local media reports and officials said on Monday.
Kyiv has hit several Russian energy sites in long-range drone strikes it says is in retaliation for Moscow’s missile attacks that have crippled Ukraine’s energy grid and cut off power to millions at various points in the three-year conflict.
The governor of Russia’s Ryazan region, Pavel Malkov, said on Telegram that a “fire broke out on the territory of an enterprise due to falling debris” after the drones were downed.
The Russian defense ministry said it shot down 22 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow.
Telegram accounts, including the Baza channel which is close to the Russian security forces, said the blaze was at an oil refinery.
Local media reported it was the third time the site, owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft, had been hit this year.
Ukraine drone attack triggers fire at Russian refinery
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Ukraine drone attack triggers fire at Russian refinery
- Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at industrial site in Russia’s Ryazan region, governor says
Two family members of Mexico’s education secretary killed in shooting
MEXICO CITY: Authorities in the western Mexican state of Colima said they killed three people suspected in the shooting deaths of two family members of Mexico’s secretary of education on Saturday.
Colima, located on Mexico’s Pacific coast, is one of the country’s most violent states. It recorded the highest homicide rate in Mexico in 2023 and 2024, according to the US State Department.
The local prosecutor’s office said officers killed three suspects in the 4:30 am (1030 GMT) shooting of two women, whom Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education Mario Delgado later identified as his aunt and cousin.
They did not identify a motive in the shooting or say whether they were searching for other suspects.
“Deep shock, outrage, and sorrow over the events that occurred this morning in Colima, where my aunt Eugenia Delgado and my cousin Sheila were brutally murdered in their home,” Delgado wrote on X on Saturday.
Officials tracked the suspects’ vehicle to a Colima home on Saturday afternoon and killed three people in a gunfight, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Investigators found weapons and clothing in the suspects’ home linked to the double shooting.
Delgado was appointed education secretary by President Claudia Sheinbaum in 2024. He previously served as national president of the ruling Morena party.
