The Volga river region's Syzran refinery was on fire but an attack on the Novokubyshev refinery was thwarted, Governor Dmitry Azarov said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.
The military administration of Sumy region said more than 180 residents of areas near the Velikopysarska community, next to the border, had been evacuated over the past three days.
Macron said France would never initiate an offensive against Russia and that Paris was not at war with Moscow.
Russia, Iran, and China have conducted at least four naval drills in the past. However, this year’s are larger, and they come amidst rising tensions in the Red Sea and off the coast of Yemen.
"From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready," Putin, 71, told Rossiya-1 television and news agency RIA when asked whether Russia was really ready for a nuclear war.
Putin asserts Russia's readiness for nuclear war amid tensions, emphasizing sovereignty concerns.
Kyiv officials said Moscow planned to step up its informational war this spring, spreading disinformation in an attempt to divide Ukrainian society in the third year of its invasion.
The SVR, the main successor to the KGB's First Directorate foreign spying service, also alleged the US planned to launch a cyber attack on the online voting system.
The Moldovan government banned the Shor Party – led at the time by Israeli-Moldovan politician Ilan Shor – from participating in national elections.