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Russia-Installed Officials Blame Ukraine For Attack On Luhansk Oil Refinery

Ukrainian separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik (file photo)
Ukrainian separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik (file photo)

Kremlin-installed leader Leonid Pasechnik said an oil depot has caught fire in the Russian-occupied eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, blaming the attack on Ukrainian shells. Pasechnik said employees of the Emergency Situations Ministry were working at the site early on May 8. Another Russia-installed official said Ukraine had used a U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in the attack. Further information was not available, and Kyiv did not immediately comment. To read the original story by RFE/RL’s Russian Service, click here.

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