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Ukrainian drones struck Moscow's oil refinery for the second time this week, causing significant damage and halting operations. The attack is part of a larger conflict impacting Russia's fuel supply amid ongoing drone strikes.
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Ukrainian drones hit Moscow’s oil refinery for the second time this week, sending out flames and plumes of smoke over the south-eastern district of Kapotnya on Thursday morning.
“Air defence forces are continuing to repel a large-scale attack. Several drones managed to reach the [Moscow oil refinery],” said Sergei Sobyanin, the city’s mayor, adding that a shopping centre was also damaged. He claimed about 180 drones heading for the capital had been downed.
Traffic was halted on Moscow’s ring road near the refinery, broadcaster RIA cited the interior ministry as saying.
The first strike, on Tuesday, was already understood to have halted operations at the refinery, adding to widespread damage to Russian energy facilities and extending a fuel crisis deeper into the country. Russia, the world’s third-biggest oil producer and a major oil and fuel exporter, is set to import fuel by sea this month as it seeks to manage a gasoline shortage after extensive Ukrainian drone attacks on its refineries.
In the surrounding Moscow region, a high-rise residential building, an industrial facility and a number of private houses were also damaged in the drone attack, the regional governor said. The Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow’s busiest, suspended flights and evacuated people, some seeking shelter in the parking area, the airport said.
Russia said its air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed 555 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight. The number actually shot down could not be independently confirmed.
Kyiv came under the second air attack this week as Russia unleashed ballistic missiles on the Ukrainian capital, city officials said, with residents urged to take shelter.
Authorities in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy said one person was killed in a drone attack. Airstrike alerts were issued for most of Ukraine’s territory.
One person was killed in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, where most of the staff of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant live, said the Russia-installed mayor, Maksim Pukhov. In Russia’s Belgorod border region, officials said a Ukrainian drone strike killed one man in his car.
On Wednesday, Moscow accused Ukraine of attacking a bus carrying Belarusian children, an accusation Kyiv said was false. In the southern Russian region of Rostov, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and caused a fire at two commercial facilities, officials said. Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately targeting civilians.
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Ukrainian drones hit Moscow's oil refinery, causing flames and smoke, and damaging a shopping center.
Approximately 180 drones were claimed to have been downed by air defense forces during the large-scale attack.
The strikes have halted operations at the refinery and are contributing to a fuel crisis in Russia, leading to plans for fuel imports by sea.

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