Ukraine claims strike on the Russian oil refinery in a great drone attack

According to reports, Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery and attacked Moscow during an attack that involves a wave of at least 100 drones, one of the largest individual operations of its kind during the war.

Video images verified by the BBC show a fireball that rises on the refinery and pumping station in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, that Ukrainian officials said it was a goal.

Russia said it had demolished 121 drones that had signed up for 13 regions, including Ryazan and Moscow, but did not report damage.

In other places, the Ukrainian authorities said three people died and one was injured when a Russian drone hit a residential building in the kyiv region.

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukraine center to counteract misinformation, said on Telegram that an oil refinery in Ryazan had been beaten, as well as the Kremniy plant in Bryansk. Kyiv says that the installation produces components for missiles and other weapons.

Bloggers on the Telegram social media site published fire images and videos in Ryazan. The images verified as genuine by the BBC show the people fleeing the site in cars as a fire is strengthened.

The Russian state news agency Ria cited a statement from the Kremniy plant in Bryansk, which said the work had been suspended after an attack that involved six drones. Pavel Malkov, the regional governor, said the emergency services were responding.

The Kremlin recognized the attacks, but did not mention damage or low.

He claimed to have destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones, including six on the Moscow region, 20 in the Ryazan region and a number on Bryansk’s border region.

Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow, said that the city’s aerial defenses had intercepted attacks by Ukrainian drones in four locations.

He said that air defenses southeast of the capital in Kolomna and Ramenskoye had also repelled drones, without specifying how many. He said there was no harm.

The Russian news agencies cited Rosaviatsiya, the Federal Aviation Agency, saying that two Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, had resumed flights after suspending operations for a while. Six flights were redirected to other airports.

In the city of Kursk, Mayor Igor Kutsak said the attacks during the night had damaged the electricity lines and cut the electricity to a district.

In Ukraine, the authorities said their aerial defenses had destroyed 25 of 58 drones released during the night by Russia.

The Interior Ministry said that the rubble of one of the drones had killed two men and a woman in the Hlevakha region, kyiv, and that another person had been injured.