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Ukrainian drones have hit several locations across Moscow, including setting an \u2060oil refinery on fire, sending out flames and towering plumes \u2060of smoke over the city and forcing the capital\u2019s airports to suspend flights.<\/p>\n

The scale of the long-range attack, apparently designed to shut down operations at the key oil refinery in the Kapotno area, caught most Muscovites by surprise in a city that does not typically warn residents with air raid alarms, and prompted panicked messages on social media.<\/p>\n

Footage posted online showed three plumes of smoke rising from the refinery. The strike was the second in two days on the facility, in what the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, then called \u201ca just response to Russian strikes\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Building on fire following Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow on Thursday.<\/span> Photograph: Social media\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Ukrainian strikes came after Kyiv was hit by a major strike of ballistic missiles and drones<\/a>, in a marked escalation of the air war between Moscow and Kyiv. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had warned of impending \u201csystemic strikes\u201d on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cAir defence forces are continuing to repel a large-scale attack. Several drones managed to reach the [Moscow oil refinery],\u201d said Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow\u2019s mayor, adding that a shopping centre was also damaged. He claimed \u200cabout 180 drones heading for the capital had \u200cbeen downed.<\/p>\n

Sobyanin said emergency crews were working at the site and also reported \u201cdamage\u201d to Sadovod shopping centre in the south-eastern part of the city. At least seven drones appear to have beaten Russia\u2019s air defences to strike targets in the city.<\/p>\n

Traffic was halted \u200bon Moscow\u2019s ring road near \u2060the refinery, the broadcaster RIA \u200bcited \u200cthe \u200binterior ministry \u200bas saying, while air traffic was disrupted at Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, and Zhukovsky airports.<\/p>\n

Footage posted on social media also appeared to show the strike on the top floors of a high rise building in the Zhukovsky district.<\/p>\n

An earlier strike on Tuesday was understood to have already halted operations at the refinery, adding to widespread damage to Russian energy facilities and extending a \u200bfuel crisis deeper into the country.<\/p>\n

Russia, the world\u2019s third-biggest oil producer and \u200ca major oil and fuel exporter, is to import fuel by sea this month as it seeks to manage a shortage after extensive Ukrainian drone attacks on its refineries.<\/p>\n

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In the surrounding \u200cMoscow region, a high-rise residential building, an industrial facility and a number of private houses were damaged in the drone attack, the regional governor said. Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow\u2019s busiest, suspended flights and evacuated people. Some sought shelter in the parking area, the airport said.<\/p>\n

Russia said its \u2060air defence systems \u200bhad intercepted and \u2060destroyed 555 Ukrainian drones over \u2060multiple \u200bregions \u200covernight. The number actually shot down could not be independently confirmed.<\/p>\n

Kyiv came under air attack this week as Russia unleashed ballistic missiles on the Ukrainian capital, city officials said, with residents urged to take shelter. Authorities in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy said one person was killed in a drone attack. Airstrike alerts were issued for most of Ukraine\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

One person was killed in the Ukrainian \u200bcity of Enerhodar, where most of \u200cthe staff of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia \u200bnuclear power plant live, said the Russia-installed mayor, Maksim \u200bPukhov. In Russia\u2019s Belgorod border region, officials said a Ukrainian drone strike killed one man in his car.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Moscow accused Ukraine of attacking a bus carrying Belarusian children<\/a>, an accusation Kyiv said was false. In the southern Russian region of Rostov, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and caused a fire at two commercial facilities, officials said. Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately targeting civilians.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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