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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Ukraine has also hit the largest oil refinery in Moscow in a major attack on Russian infrastructure. Videos show how fire and black smoke rise from the refinery.
The gas stations of the Gazprom Neft network in Moscow started to run out of gas today after a night attack by Ukrainian drones and a large fire at the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya (MNZP), which is owned by that company, writes the Russian portal msk1.ru.
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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.
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