Ukraine soldier. Credit: The Times
A drone hit a major oil refinery just outside Moscow on Tuesday, triggering a fire and causing damage, Russian authorities said, as Ukraine claimed the attack was retribution for Russia’s own strikes.
The strike comes a day after Ukraine said Moscow fired more than 600 drones and 70 missiles across the country, killing at least 11 people and damaging the site of a UNESCO-listed Orthodox monastery in Kyiv.
“Over the past 24 hours, enemy drone attacks on Moscow have continued. One of the drones damaged a Moscow oil refinery facility. There were no casualties,” Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Russia’s state-run Max platform.
According to Sobyanin, 60 drones launched at Moscow have been intercepted on Tuesday, in what the TASS state news agency called one of the largest barrages targeting the Russian capital this year.
