Moscow Oil Refinery Facility Hit in Drone Attack, Fires Break Out
- On Sunday, Ukrainian drones struck Moscow, killing a 74-year-old man in Orekhovo-Zuyevo District and a 44-year-old woman in Ramenskoye while damaging a Gazprom Neft oil refinery on the final day of Russia's parliamentary election.
- Kyiv has escalated long-range drone strikes in recent months against energy infrastructure to disrupt Kremlin revenue funding the war effort now in its fifth year, having previously damaged the targeted refinery.
- Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov reported 15 people hospitalized including two teenagers ages 14 and 15, while a drone-triggered fire in a 21-storey building forced the evacuation of 400 residents.
- Over 1,600 drones were shot down since Saturday, including 450 heading toward Moscow, leading Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to allege the attack aimed to disrupt the election meant to tighten President Vladimir Putin's 26-year grip on power.
- Dismissing the vote as a 'pseudo election,' Kyiv noted the NEST think-tank in Berlin warned of awkward moments for the Kremlin, while Russia simultaneously killed three children and a woman in the Kyiv region, according to regional governor Tymur Tkachenko.
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The Moscow mayor accused Ukraine during the Russian parliamentary election of massive attempts to disturb. Selensky reacted. News in the blog.
UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that Ukrainian forces carried out a major nighttime attack on Moscow and its surroundings, in which an oil refinery and a logistics facility were hit.
Poet smoke hangs over Moscow: after a violent drone and rocket attack by Ukraine on Russia, the capital's most important refinery burns.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianin, says that a number of drones arrived in the vicinity of the oil refinery in Moscow, where Kiev continues to target Russian oil installations.
The network published videos in which residents of Moscow film fires that broke out as a result of an attack by drones.
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