MOSCOW – Scores of Ukrainian drones bore down on Moscow yesterday, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week in what Kyiv cast as a demonstration of its growing capabilities that should force Russia to accept a peace deal.
Russia, for its part, fired missiles into Kyiv, also for the second time this week, following an attack that damaged Kyiv’s landmark 1 000-year-old monastery and drew international condemnation.
In Moscow, Reuters saw flames and plumes of smoke over the densely populated southeastern district of Kapotnya where the refinery supplying the capital is located.
“Air defence forces continue to repel a massive attack. Several drones managed to reach the Moscow oil refinery,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, adding that a shopping centre also suffered minor damage.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said 555 drones were shot down across the country. Sobyanin said 180 were shot down around Moscow alone. State news agency TASS said the attack on Moscow was one of the biggest this year.
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