Ukraine’s invasion of Crimea kills five, Russian officials say | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

The conspiracies continue as Moscow ousts Romania’s top diplomat in a number of ways.

At least five people have been killed in Ukraine’s airstrike on Russia’s Crimea Peninsula as Kyiv protests, according to Russia’s appointed ambassador to the region.

Crimea’s governor, Sergey Aksyonov, said two people, including a child, were killed and two others were injured following a “night attack by the enemy” on Thursday.

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A drone strike killed two people in the Bryansk border and one person was killed in the Belgorod region, authorities said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said 269 Ukrainian drones were shot down in Russia and Crimea overnight.

The head of the Krasnoarmeysk district in Krasnodar Krai said debris from the drone caused a fire at a fuel storage facility.

“Following the fall of UAV debris, a fire broke out at the Poltavskaya oil storage facility,” Aleksandr Kharitonov wrote on the Russian government’s Max platform.

Crimean authorities have imposed a power cut across the island following the Ukrainian invasion, Aksyonov said.

“Electricity lines have been damaged by military equipment. Therefore, electricity will be temporarily cut off in Crimea,” the Moscow-based governor wrote in the Telegraph.

At the same time, Russia attacked three locomotives, killing one driver and hitting two gas stations in Ukraine on Thursday, officials there said.

The locomotives were hit in the northeastern part of Sumy and in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of the state railway group Ukrzaliznytsia, said on Facebook.

Inexorably, Russia and Ukraine have both attacked oil and military supplies during the war, hoping to disarm each other and gain control over the front.

Russian-Romanian conflict

Amidst the violence, regional diplomatic disputes continue.

Russia on Thursday expelled the Romanian ambassador to St Petersburg in what the Romanian Foreign Ministry called “unexpected.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Romanian envoy Cristian Istrate was given a document “declaring the Consul General of Romania in St. Petersburg persona non grata.”

The post also explained the “imminent closure of this country’s embassy there”.

The move came after Romania closed the Russian mission in the Romanian city of Constanta last month.

Relations between the two countries have deteriorated after a Russian drone last month, a house in the city of Galatia in Romania, on the border with Ukraine.

The drone crash, which injured two people, also sparked outrage from Romania and its allies NATO and the EU, both of which Bucharest is part of.

Also on Thursday, the French military seized another tank it said was linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” as part of European efforts to pressure Moscow and block its funding channels.