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Ukraine reportedly deed a Russian lipid refinery and targeted Moscow during an onslaught involving a question of astatine slightest 121 drones, 1 of the largest azygous operations of its benignant during the war.
Video footage verified by the BBC shows a fireball rising implicit the refinery and pumping presumption successful the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, which Ukrainian officials said was a target.
Russia said it had changeable down 121 drones that had targeted 13 regions, including Ryazan and Moscow, but reported nary damage.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian authorities said 3 radical were killed and 1 was injured erstwhile a Russian drone deed a residential gathering successful the Kyiv region.
Andriy Kovalenko, caput of Ukraine's centre for countering disinformation, said connected Telegram that an lipid refinery successful Ryazan had been hit, arsenic good arsenic the Kremniy mill successful Bryansk that Kyiv says produces rocket components and different weapons.
Bloggers connected Telegram posted images and videos of fires raging astatine the Ryazan facility, which covers astir 6sq km (2.3sq miles). Verified footage shows radical fleeing from the tract successful cars and connected ft arsenic a fireball rises into the sky.
BBC Verify utilized video footage to found the determination of 2 fires astatine the refinery. One video shows a occurrence adjacent the bluish entrance, whose determination was matched by the roadworthy layout, signs and fences.
Two different videos amusement a larger occurrence connected the eastbound broadside of the refinery, astir 3km (1.6m) distant from the first. The determination was identified by matching trees, pylons, roadworthy and way layouts.
Russian state-owned quality bureau RIA cited a connection from the Kremniy mill successful Bryansk, which said enactment had been suspended aft an onslaught by six drones. Pavel Malkov, the determination governor, said exigency services were responding.
The Kremlin acknowledged the attacks but made nary notation of harm oregon casualties.
It claimed to person destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones, including six implicit the Moscow region, 20 successful the Ryazan region, and a fig implicit the borderline portion of Bryansk.
Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow's mayor, said the city's aerial defences had intercepted attacks by Ukrainian drones astatine 4 locations.
He said aerial defences southeast of the superior successful Kolomna and Ramenskoye had besides repelled drones, without specifying however many. He said determination was nary damage.
Russian quality agencies quoted Rosaviatsiya, the national aviation agency, arsenic saying 2 Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, had resumed flights aft suspending operations for a time. Six flights were redirected to different airports.
In the metropolis of Kursk, Mayor Igor Kutsak said overnight attacks had damaged powerfulness lines and chopped disconnected energy to 1 district.
In Ukraine, officials said that its aerial defences had destroyed 25 of 58 drones launched overnight by Russia.
The interior ministry said debris from 1 of the drones had killed 2 men and a pistillate successful Hlevakha, Kyiv region, and that different idiosyncratic had been injured.
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