A Ukrainian drone strike damaged a Moscow oil refinery facility as Russia said it intercepted 60 other drones aimed at the capital.
A Ukrainian drone attack damaged an oil refinery facility in southeast Moscow on Tuesday, Russian authorities said, as Moscow reported intercepting 60 other drones aimed at the capital.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Russia’s state-run Maks platform that “one of the drones damaged a Moscow oil refinery facility” and that no injuries were reported. Local authorities closed the area around the refinery to traffic after the strike.
The damaged facility is in the Kapotnya district of southeast Moscow. Separately, footage showed a drone detonating against a building under construction about 4 kilometers from an attack on what was described as the biggest oil plant in the capital’s region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Ukraine was responsible and framed the operation as a demonstration of Kyiv’s long-range strike capacity. “This time, the Moscow region felt the reach of Ukraine’s long-range capabilities. An oil refinery was hit at a distance of 500 kilometres,” he wrote on social media.
The strike followed what Kyiv described as a major Russian aerial assault a day earlier, with more than 600 drones and 70 missiles launched across Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said that barrage killed at least 11 people and damaged part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO-listed Orthodox monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital. Russia denied responsibility for the monastery damage and blamed a U.S.-made Patriot missile.
Russia has carried out near-daily aerial attacks on Ukraine since launching its full-scale invasion in 2022. In recent months, Kyiv has increasingly targeted sites inside Russia, including oil refineries and export infrastructure, as it seeks to pressure the energy revenues that support Moscow’s war effort.
Tuesday’s barrage underscored the widening reach of the drone war, with Moscow reporting one of the largest waves aimed at the Russian capital this year and both sides continuing to frame strikes far from the front line as part of the broader campaign.
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