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

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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.

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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