Ukraine launched dozens of drones into Moscow on Tuesday morning, reportedly causing significant damage to the city’s largest oil refinery, located just miles away from the Kremlin. The Moscow Oil Refinery is located in the city’s Kapotnya District and owned by Russia’s massive Gazprom Corporation. Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin confirmed the attack early Tuesday morning in a statement posted on Telegram, the cloud-based messaging application. “Over the past 24 hours, an attack by enemy drones on Moscow has continued,” said Sobyanin. “One of the drones damaged a facility on the territory of the Moscow Refinery. There were no casualties. Emergency services are working at the scene of the incident.”No casualties from the Ukrainian strike were reported by Russian news media.
The Moscow Oil Refinery is an integral part of the city’s energy infrastructure. It processed 11.6 tons of oil in 2024, the latest year for which data are available, according to Reuters. Tuesday’s strike on the refinery is at least the second-known incident during the Russia-Ukraine war in which the oil refinery was damaged due to a Ukrainian drone attack, with the previous one being on Sept. 1, 2024.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a social media post about his country’s drone attack on Moscow, categorizing it as a “just response to Russian strikes.”
