Ukrainian Drone Attack Kills 13        08/10 06:17

   A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk killed 13 
people, including a child, and wounded 75 others, authorities in the Tatarstan 
region said. The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery there.

   (AP) -- A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk 
killed 13 people, including a child, and wounded 75 others, authorities in the 
Tatarstan region said. The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery there.

   Russian officials didn't say what the drones targeted, but the city is an 
important oil refining hub, home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant. 
Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily 
in recent months. The barrage has caused fuel shortages in Russia, eaten into 
Russian refining capacity and unsettled the Russian public.

   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it is a campaign to force 
Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and stop his more 
than 4-year-old invasion.

   Nizhnekamsk came under a "massive" drone attack targeting industrial and 
civilian facilities on Monday morning, according to the press service of 
Tatarstan's head, Rustam Minnikhanov. No further details were immediately 
available.

   Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck a Taneco oil refinery in 
Nizhnekamsk, starting a fire.

   It was not possible to independently verify either side's claims.

   Nizhnekamsk is roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the Ukrainian 
border and has a population of about 240,000.

   Ukraine's domestically developed long-range drones have flown increasing 
distances deep inside Russia, with some now reaching Siberia, around 2,000 
kilometers (1,200 miles) from the border.

   "We do deliver entirely justified responses, and every Russian strike will 
be met with our response. Russia's war will be felt more and more at their own 
home -- in Russia," Zelenskyy said late Sunday on social media.

   "The only reason this is still continuing is Russia's unwillingness to end 
this war."

   Russia has also regularly battered Ukraine from the air using missiles, 
powerful glide bombs and drones, hitting civilian areas and causing thousands 
of civilian casualties, according to the United Nations.

   The World Health Organization's European office said Monday that one of its 
warehouses in the central Dnipro region of Ukraine had been struck twice in 
less than 24 hours.

   The attacks destroyed emergency supplies worth an estimated $500,000 that 
were intended for front-line health facilities, it said in a statement. No 
casualties were reported.