Putin reeling as Moscow burns after ferocious Ukraine drone attacks | World | News
Ukrainian drones hit an oil depot south of Moscow, sparking a massive fire in the latest aerial bombardment overnight. As Kiev continues to target energy infrastructure and military-industrial facilities, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that 193 drones were shot down across the country.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that air defense systems shot down 36 UAVs We are heading towards the capital of Russia. But some still They achieved their target when a UAV crashed into an oil depot in the city of Sepukhov in the Moscow region. Video footage of the strike was soon posted on social media channels by local residents, showing a massive fire engulfing the oil depot.
Ukraine has ruthlessly targeted oil refineries in Russia in an attempt to disrupt fuel supplies to Putin’s army and deprive the Kremlin of vital revenue from energy exports.
While the attacks caused a fuel crisis in many parts of the country, drivers waited for hours in kilometer-long queues at gas stations.
Russian Telegram channels reported that residents of several suburbs of Moscow, including Domodedovo, Podolsk, Dubna and Troitsk, reported hearing explosions.
At Zhukovsky and Domodedovo airports, flights were briefly stopped, five flights were canceled and six flights were postponed.
It was reported that a fire broke out in the forest area of Kommunarka within the city limits. However, local officials refused to disclose the cause of the fire.
This was the second major drone attack on Moscow in a month. In late September, air defenses shot down 41 drones in two days. The largest attack to date in the capital took place in May, when 109 UAVs were intercepted in two and a half days.
In the Kursk region, a fire broke out near an electricity substation in the city of Rylsk following what local authorities claimed was a Ukrainian drone attack.
Kursk regional governor Alexander Khinshtein said, “As a result of the UAV attack, additional buildings near a house located near the substation caught fire. Fire crews extinguished the fire.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian special forces claimed to have destroyed a Russian front-line fuel depot in the occupied Luhansk region.
The impact of unmanned aerial vehicles when the fuel tanks were full caused a huge explosion and a fire to spread in the Russian warehouse.
“Special Operations Forces continue to launch asymmetric attacks on the enemy to accelerate the cessation of offensive efforts,” the statement made on the Telegram channel said. The statement was included.
