Local ceasefire without extension... Russia and Ukraine fight over energy facilities (comprehensive)

Russia and Ukraine continued their attacks targeting each other's energy facilities without extending the truce on the 1st (local time), the last day of the Oleski local ceasefire.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media that day, "Overnight, energy infrastructure in four regions of Ukraine, including Dnipro, was attacked by Russia."

President Zelenskyy reported that power supply to hundreds of thousands of households was cut off as substations, transformers, and transmission lines that supply electricity to ordinary homes were targeted.

“Over the past week, Russia has launched 1,940 attack drones, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs, and 36 ballistic missiles,” he wrote.

According to the AFP news agency, in Russia, an oil refinery in the Kstovo region of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was attacked by Ukraine and suffered significant damage. This area is home to the Norsey Oil Refinery, one of Russia's largest oil refineries.

The Kamensky plant, a defense company located in Rostov Oblast, Russia, was also attacked. President Zelenskyy claimed, “The total value of Russian air defense assets damaged by this Ukraine attack amounts to $70 million (about 93.5 billion won).”

The ceasefire in the Russian-occupied Oleshki region, which both sides agreed to on the 23rd of last month, went smoothly without any violations of the agreement, but there were no signs of easing tensions even on the last day of the ceasefire.

A three-party war ending negotiation mediated by the United States is also scheduled for this month in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), but the armed conflict between the two sides continues.

On this day, President Zelensky shared an excerpt of an interview with the American current affairs program ‘This Week on Capitol Hill’ on social media. “About 800 religious facilities were destroyed or damaged by the Russian military, and about 120 clergy were killed,” he said in an interview.

He also said, “It was not an accidental attack, it was a deliberate attack,” and emphasized that a building with a 1,000-year-old history was also attacked.