Waves of Ukrainian drones target Russian power and oil facilities, Kyiv says
Waves of Ukrainian drones target Russian power and oil facilities, Kyiv says
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Ukraine hits second major Russian oil refinery in a week after Zelensky hails Kyiv’s growing long-range drone capabilities as ‘bringing the war back to Russia’. Ukraine has targeted Russian energy facilities and a big oil refinery that feeds Vladimir Putin’s war machine in multiple waves of drone strikes.
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The Ukrainian military said the strike on the refinery in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region had caused a large fire. A video posted on social media that showed orange flames lighting up the night sky in the city of Kstovo. Lukoil's Norsi refinery, Russia's fourth largest, is based in Kstovo, which lies east of Moscow and about 800 km (500 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed it had detected more than 100 drones in a major overnight attack, with the governor of the Smolensk region claiming one drone had been shot down near the largest nuclear power plant in Russia’s northwest. Read the latest updates on the Ukraine war.
Reporting a “powerful fire” at the oil refinery in Kstovo, a city in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, Ukraine’s military said on Wednesday morning that it was still clarifying the extent of the damage – but vowed to continue its attacks on facilities involved in supporting Russia’s war.
A Ukrainian military intelligence source claimed to the Kyiv Independent that Lukoil’s depot in Kstovo was targeted by four drones, all of which hit their target and caused “significant damage”. And Russian petrochemicals giant Sibur said it had temporarily suspended operations at its plant in Kstovo on Wednesday morning, claiming that debris from a Ukrainian drone had caused a fire.
