Ukrainian drones struck oil plants in Moscow and Russia's southern Krasnodar Krai region overnight. No fatalities or injuries were reported in either location. File photo by Russian Emergencies Ministry/EPA-EFE
June 16 (UPI) -- Ukrainian drones struck oil plants in Moscow and Russia's southern Krasnodar Krai region overnight. The attacks coincided with a meeting of G7 leaders in France, with the war high on the agenda.
Dozens of drones targeted Moscow with at least one hitting the Moscow Oil Refinery but no one was killed or injured, said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin who provided no details of damage to the plant.
Sobyanin said air defenses had downed or intercepted 60 drones targeting Moscow in what the state-run TASS news agency called one of the largest attacks on the capital of 2026.
The Gazprom-owned plant in the southeast of the city -- responsible for delivering more than one-third of the fuel needs of the capital, as well as jet fuel and other refined products -- has been hit twice previously by Ukraine in May and in September 2024.
