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Ukraine launches its largest-ever drone attack on Moscow, damaging oil refinery
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Ukraine launched its largest-ever drone and missile strike targeting the Moscow region during the final day of Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Over the past day, hundreds of combat engagements occurred along Ukraine's front as Russian forces mounted mass strikes and drones, while Ukrainian defenses repelled numerous assaults across multiple sectors, with Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka areas seeing the heaviest activity.
A series of Russian drone strikes hit Ukrainian cities, destroying shopping centers and damaging commercial facilities, with fires in Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, and the Kyiv region and multiple reports of injuries or casualties as rescue services work to assess damage.
Ukraine and Russia have continued attacks on each other's energy infrastructure despite an announcement by President Donald Trump on Monday that they had agreed to stop.
The Moscow Oil Refinery was hit during drone attacks that were part of the largest overnight Ukrainian barrage this year, as Russia entered the final day of voting in its parliamentary elections.
Plumes of smoke rose over Moscow on Sunday morning after Ukraine's latest massed drone attack on the city in which a major oil refinery was among the targets.
An oil refinery was hit in one of the largest attacks so far on the Russian capital, as the country holds a parliamentary election. Meanwhile, at least four people were killed in Russian strikes in Ukraine's Kyiv region.
CNN By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Darya Tarasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine carried out its largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital and the surrounding area as voting in parliamentary elections entered the final day.
By Laura Sharman, Svitlana Vlasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Moscow’s mayor says Ukraine carried out its “largest ever” attack on the Russian capital and the surrounding area as voting in parliamentary elections entered the final day.
The largest Ukrainian drone attack reported so far on the Moscow region killed two people and damaged part of an oil refinery in the capital, authorities said Sunday.
A large overnight swarm of Ukrainian strike drones hit Moscow and nearby districts in the early hours of Sunday, Sept. 20, setting a major blaze at the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya and wrecking a logistics warehouse complex in the Ramensky district.
Ukraine launched a huge drone attack on Moscow and its surrounding regions Sunday as Russian voters cast ballots on the final day of parliamentary elections.
