Ukraine Says Its Drones Hit Main Refinery in Moscow

Ukraine claimed it hit a serious oil refinery that provides Moscow and its airports, as a part of a document drone barrage forward of talks between Kyiv and the US over a possible ceasefire.

Drones hit the Moscow refinery in a single day, Ukraine’s Normal Workers stated in a Telegram put up. In Russia, the regional unit of emergencies ministry stated in a Telegram assertion that particles of a UAV with an unexploded warhead was present in Moscow’s district of Kapotnya, the place the refinery is positioned, and was “efficiently neutralized.”

Gazprom Neft PJSC, which owns the refinery, stated the power was working usually, in line with a press release from its press workplace. It wasn’t attainable to independently confirm Ukraine’s claims or assess any harm to the refinery.

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Ukraine launched a document variety of drones on Russia in a single day, with air defenses capturing down 337 drones together with dozens that focused Moscow, Russian officers stated early Tuesday. Prime officers from the US and Ukraine started talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discover the potential for reaching a ceasefire.

The Moscow facility is one among Russia’s largest refineries, with design crude-processing capability of about 257,000 barrels a day. It provides greater than a 3rd of the gas market within the capital area, together with Moscow airports, in line with its web site. Ukrainian drones hit the power final yr, forcing it to briefly droop operations at one of many processing models in September. 

Kyiv has intensified assaults on Russia’s power infrastructure concentrating on refineries and oil-pumping stations nearly each day because the Kremlin’s warfare in opposition to Ukraine has entered its fourth yr. Repeated drone assaults on a key business purpose to curtail Russia’s skill to ship gas to the entrance line and restrict Moscow’s income from oil gross sales. 

The in a single day strike additionally led to explosions at an oil-product pipeline operation management station within the Orel area, in line with Ukraine’s Normal Workers. Transneft, which operates oil and merchandise pipelines in Russia, didn’t instantly reply to Bloomberg request for a remark.