Scores of Ukrainian drones have rained down on Moscow, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time in a week. Russia fired missiles into Kyiv, also for the second time in days, following an attack that damaged Kyiv’s landmark 1000-year-old monastery and drew international condemnation. The Ukrainian attacks left 17 people injured and damaged civilian infrastructure in the capital, local officials said. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Arrow In Moscow on Thursday, Reuters saw flames and plumes of smoke
over the densely populated southeastern district of Kapotnya where the refinery supplying the capital is located. Shocking footage circulating online captured the moment a strike blew the roof off of a storage tanker. “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. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has since vowed to carry out “massive co-ordinated strikes on a regular basis” against Ukraine The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he had held “an important co-ordination call” with the presidents of the United States and France and had won key pledges of further support from this week’s G7 summit. “If Ukraine is going to burn, your Moscow will burn too,” Zelenskiy said, adding that the attack was part of Ukraine’s effort to bring Russian
President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. “It is time to end the aggression, time to end this war.” Putin on Thursday was in Kazan, 700km east of Moscow, hosting leaders of the Association of South East Asian Nations as Russia seeks to bolster business and other ties with the regional bloc. Russia’s state-controlled TV channels only briefly mentioned the attack on Moscow.
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So what, they hit a refinery again and now everyone’s like retaliation? Doesn’t seem like it ever ends.
The part about drones “blowing the roof off” sounds insane, like just minding your business and bam. Also 555 drones shot down?? That number feels made up.
Honestly the article makes it sound like Putin is just chilling in Kazan while Moscow burns, so idk why people act surprised. And if Zelenskiy said it’s to force negotiations, doesn’t that mean negotiations already failed? Kinda backwards.
Wait, I thought Russia said it was retaliation for that monastery thing in Kyiv, but now it’s refinery #2 in a week… so is it all connected or are they just doing whatever. “Massive coordinated strikes” sounds like the same promise they always make. I’m confused but feel bad for the people injured.