Ukraine launched a massive long-range strike on Moscow last night, targeting the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya, in the south-east of the Russian capital.
The refinery, operated by Gazprom Neft, is one of the most important fuel-processing facilities supplying Moscow and the surrounding region. Russian authorities confirmed that several Ukrainian drones reached the refinery and damaged one of its facilities. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described the wider attack as the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian capital so far.
The attack follows another major Ukrainian attack on the Moscow refinery on 18 June, which caused extensive fires and disruption. The refinery had also been struck two days earlier, on 16 June, when a primary refining unit was damaged and operations were halted.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the latest attack, saying that Ukrainian long-range weapons had struck “one of the key enterprises of the Russian oil industry” as well as a Russian logistics facility.
“These are billions of dollars that support the war machine,” President Zelensky said.
He said the attack involved a range of Ukrainian-produced long-range weapons, including FP-1 drones, Palyanytsia, Liutyi and Bars systems, as well as Flamingo and Pelican missiles. Zelensky added that Moscow should stop building additional layers of air defence and instead “end its brutal war and choose peace”.
Meanwhile, Russia continued its daily strikes on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure across numerous regions.
In Kherson Oblast, a Russian FPV drone struck a monastery in the village of Chervonyi Maiak, killing a 71-year-old priest and injuring four other priests.
Russian attacks across Ukraine over the previous day killed at least eight people and wounded around 30 others, while a child was injured in an earlier Russian strike also died in hospital.
Footage below of Moscow.
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