KYIV
\nAn early morning Russian drone strike on a petrol station in Kyiv killed two people and hospitalized four, the city\u2019s mayor said on Friday. Fears are growing in the Ukrainian capital that Moscow has launched a new campaign targeting fuel stations there \u2013 a tactic that Russia\u2019s troops have long deployed in areas closer to the front line.
\n\u201cThere are now two killed in the morning attack on the Kyiv gas station,\u201d Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on social media. The emergency services posted footage of a burnt out forecourt, still smoking after the drone attack.
\nUkrainian oil giant Ukrnafta reported two of its petrol stations were hit simultaneously on Friday morning. \u201cThis is yet another deliberate strike on civilian facilities that provide people with fuel and essential goods,\u201d CEO Bogdan Kukura wrote on social media.
\n\u201cThere is no military objective in such attacks. This is terror against the civilian population,\u201d he added. The strikes on the petrol stations follow weeks of Russia raining down a new kind of faster, jet-powered drone on Kyiv, including to attack logistics centers, warehouses and commercial supply chains.
\nThe devices travel at up to 600 kilometers (370 miles) per hour and are harder for Ukraine\u2019s air defenses to intercept.\u201cThe primary purpose of these strikes is to paralyze economic activity and to make the delivery of anything anywhere extremely difficult,\u201d Igor Koziy, a military expert at the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv, told local TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KYIV An early morning Russian drone strike on a petrol station in Kyiv killed two people and hospitalized four, the city\u2019s mayor said on Friday. Fears are growing in the Ukrainian capital that Moscow has launched a new campaign targeting fuel stations there \u2013 a tactic that Russia\u2019s troops have long deployed in areas closer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n