MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian western city of Oryol is restricting supply of heat and hot water after Ukrainian drones hit a pipeline at a local power plant on Friday, local authorities said.
“It will be necessary to limit the heat and hot water supply to buildings in the Sovetsky, Zheleznodorozhny and Severny districts of the city of Oryol,” the governor of the Oryol region, Andrey Klychkov, wrote on social media.
Both Ukraine and Russia have intensified attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure in the past several weeks as peace talks hit a dead end.
The Financial Times reported on Friday that the United States cancelled a planned Budapest summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin following Russia’s firm stance on hardline demands regarding Ukraine.
Separately, Russia’s defence ministry said its forces shot down 130 Ukrainian drones overnight, mainly over the western regions as well as the Yaroslavl and Moscow regions.
Local authorities also said infrastructure was hit near the city of Vladimir, while a kindergarten in Yaroslavl, some 280 km (175 miles) northeast of Moscow, has been closed following a drone attack.
Reuters could not independently verify the accounts.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
