Explosion rocks Russian city close to Ukraine border

An explosion rocked the center of the Russian city of Taganrog near the border with Ukraine on Friday, injuring several people, the Kremlin said.

Elsewhere, prominent Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said in a Telegram post that an explosion had hit a major oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region, around 850 miles northwest of Taganrog.

Blaming Ukraine for the “terrorist attack on the residential infrastructure” in Taganrog, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Telegram post that its defense systems had “detected and intercepted” a modified “Soviet-made S-200 missile”

It added that fragments of the missile had fallen on the city, damaging several buildings and injuring civilians.