Ukraine has carried out a significant drone attack, claiming to have struck a Russian oil refinery as part of its strategy to weaken Moscow’s energy infrastructure. The strike is seen as an attempt to disrupt fuel supplies critical to Russia’s military operations.

Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Friday, killing three civilians and damaging residential and commercial buildings, officials said.

Three people were killed in the Russian UAV attack on Kyiv Oblast on the night of 23-24 January. Source: Mykola Kalashnyk, the acting head of Kyiv Oblast Military Administration; State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Telegram;

Ukraine hits second major Russian oil refinery in a week after Zelensky hails Kyiv’s growing long-range drone capabilities as ‘bringing the war back to Russia’

At least three people were killed in the assault on the capital, and at least one died and 11 were wounded in a separate strike in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery 250 miles east of Moscow in a huge wave of attacks on Russian power plants, say military sources. A large fire exploded at the refinery in Kstovo city in the Nizhny Novgorod region following the attack, the Ukrainian military said, adding it was assessing the scale of damage there.

As the war in Ukraine approaches the three-year mark, Russia has stepped up its air attacks, sending dozens of drones almost every night. View on euronews