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Ukraine says it hit a Russian oil refinery and microchip factory in a major drone attack that fires on the refinery’s production facilities and an oil pumping station.
Other drones targeted regions, numbering 20 in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Russian war bloggers’ channels on the messaging app Telegram posted videos of what they described as giant fires in the city. They said an oil depot and a power plant were attacked.
The Ukrainian army said on Facebook that the fires exploded in the production comforts of The Hurtd Refinery and an oil pumping station, but showed how serious the pain was.
Ukraine’s military said it also attacked the Krenniy El microelectronics plant in Russia’s Bryansk region, which kyiv says has produced parts for Russian air defense missile systems, nuclear-capable missiles and onboard electronics for fighter jets. .
The Russian Defense Ministry said it intercepted 121 drones that aimed at thirteen regions, added that six drones were destroyed in the Moscow region and one in the capital itself. The ministry revealed the scope of damage or loss.
The overnight moves underline Ukraine’s ability to attack Russia’s deep domestic goals as the two sides review their positions before beginning peace talks after Donald Trump returns to White Housearray
The president of the United States has said that he tries to reach a quick end to only 3 years of war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he opens to Trump conversations in the war in Ukraine, but that the negotiation factor with Ukraine confused the fact that its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, had signed an executive order that prevented him from achieving Negotiations with Putin.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defenses had intercepted Ukrainian drone strikes in 4 places in the Russian capital.
“In the place where the fragments fell, no wounds or losses occurred,” Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. “Specialized emergency groups are in Thearray”
Russian news agencies have quoted Rosaviatsiyi, the Federal Aviation Agency, as saying that two Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, controlled the theft after postponing operations for a while. Six flights were redirected to other airports.
In Kursk’s Russian border city, a region where Ukraine has a strip of territory, Mayor Igor Kutsak said the night attack had broken the Electritown lines and cut Electritown in a municipal district.
Commenting on the damage caused by Ukraine’s drone attacks, Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s centre for countering disinformation, said on Telegram that an oil refinery in Ryazan had been hit as well as the Kremniy plant in Bryansk, which Kyiv says produces microelectronics for Russian weapons systems.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Air Force said on Friday it had led a Russian drone strike and killed 25 of the 58 drones smuggled through Russia in an overnight assault.
The interior ministry said that drone debris had killed two men and a woman in the central Kyiv region and that another person was injured. The attack damaged a multi-storey residential apartment building, eight private houses, commercial buildings, and several private cars, Kyiv regional officials said.
As the war approaches the three-year mark, Russia has stepped up its airstrikes against Ukraine, sending dozens of drones almost every night.
Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had introduced more than 7,000 drones in 2024, at least twice as many as in 2023. Most have been sacrificed or redirected through electronic warfare, but many have achieved their goals. Moscow denies targeting civilians.
Meanwhile, Russian security official Sergei Shoigu warned in an interview published on Friday that the risk of an armed clash between nuclear powers was rising.
Mr Shoigu, the secretary of Putin’s Security Council, told the state-run TASS news agency: “Against the backdrop of increasing conflict and aggravation of geopolitical rivalry in the world, the risks of a violent clash between major states, including with the participation of nuclear powers, are growing.”
The former Defense Minister said NATO’s superior activities on its eastern flank, close to Russia and Belarus, and repeated offensive and defensive scenarios.
Nato says it is Russia that is raising tensions, including by announcing in 2023 that it was deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its ally Belarus, which borders three Nato countries. “The Russian ‘nuclear umbrella’ now ensures the protection of our closest ally in the same framework scenarios in which Russia allows a nuclear response for its own defence,” Mr Shoigu said of Belarus.
Reuters contributed to this report
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