Ukraine attacks Russian oil refinery near Moscow

KYIV, Nov 16 (AFP): Ukraine said Saturday it had attacked a Russian oil refinery in a region near Moscow, a day after deadly Russian attacks on its capital Kyiv.
Kyiv also said Russian attacks on southern Ukrainian regions had killed four people Saturday.
The Ukrainian army said on social media it had hit a refinery in the Ryazan region near Moscow as "part of efforts to reduce the enemy's ability to launch missile and bomb strikes".
Ukraine has regularly staged missile and drone attacks inside Russia throughout the Kremlin's invasion since 2022.
Ryazan governor Pavel Malkov said Russian air defences shot down 25 Ukrainian drones over the region during the night.
"Falling debris caused a fire on the premises of one enterprise," Malkov said on Telegram but there had been no casualties.
The attack came a day after Russia struck apartment blocks across Ukraine's capital Kyiv that left seven dead, according to the latest toll.
"It has been reported that an elderly woman who was wounded during the shelling on November 14 died in hospital this morning," Tymur Tkachenko of Kyiv's city administration, said on social media.
Other victims included a couple in their 70s and a 62-year-old.
Officials in southern Ukraine said four people had been killed by Russian attacks on Saturday.
Prosecutors in the Kherson region said "three civilians are known to have been killed" in the village of Myklitskyi and the city of Kherson.
Ukraine working on
prisoner exchange
Ukraine is working to resume prisoner exchanges with Russia that could bring home 1,200 Ukrainian prisoners, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, a day after his national security chief announced progress in negotiations.
"We are ... counting on the resumption of POW exchanges," Zelenskyy wrote on X. "Many meetings, negotiations and calls are currently taking place to ensure this."
Rustem Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said Saturday he held consultations mediated by Turkey and the United Arab Emirates on resuming exchanges.
He said the parties agreed to activate prisoner exchange agreements brokered in Istanbul to release 1,200 Ukrainians. Moscow did not immediately comment on the claim.
Russia claims to have seized
2 new villages in Ukraine
The Russian army on Sunday claimed to have captured two more villages in southern Ukraine, where its troops are slowly gaining ground against outnumbered Ukrainian forces.
On Telegram, the Russian Ministry of Defence said its troops had taken Rivnopillia and Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Although the Zaporizhzia frontline is much less active than the eastern front, where most of the fighting occurs, Russian forces that are better equipped and more numerous than their opponents are advancing in both regions.
Fighting in the east centres around control of the key logistical hub Pokrovsk, which hundreds of Russian soldiers have infiltrated in recent weeks, weakening Ukrainian defences.
Peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow are currently deadlocked, and a planned Budapest summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin did not go ahead.