Ukraine on Sunday introduced a ferocious wave of drone attacks across Russia, oil refineries and Crimea.
In weeks, Zelensky’s forces have carried out repeated aerial bombardments targeting strategic business sites in Russia, causing widespread devastation and damage.
The aim appears to be to disrupt supplies of weapons and fuel to Putin’s army in Ukraine.
There was a first fire in Ryazan’s oil refinery after he attacked for the second time in two days.
The refinery is one of the largest in Russia, with a capacity to process 17 million metric tonnes of oil per year.
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Emergency services had just managed to extinguish a previous fire after drones hit the warehouse on Friday.
Images posted on social media and verified through the Astra Telegram channel show a huge ball of flames emerging over the refinery.
The Ukrainian military later demonstrated that it had the oil depot in an official press release.
“Units of the unmanned systems forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine attacked the facilities of the Ryazan oil refining company, which refers to supporting the Russian Occupation Army,” they said.
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“Explosions and fire were recorded in the target area. The company, in particular, produces diesel fuel and TS-1 jet fuel.”
The Ukrainians also added that their missile forces had destroyed a forward command point belonging to marines from Russia’s Pacific Fleet in Kursk.
Putin’s army is attempting to regain territory it lost to Ukraine after Zelensky’s troops launched a lightning surprise attack in Russia early in August.
Ukraine attempted some other bold attack in Crimea over the weekend, waterborne drones.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its military managed to intercept the drones before they could achieve their goals.
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“In the morning, the fireplacearms of fireplace in service with the Black Sea fleet in the northwest of the Black Sea destroyed two unmanned boats traveling toward the Crimean Peninsula,” they said.
This comes as Putin’s air dropped a 250-kilogram bomb on one of his own villages in the Belgorod region.
The telegram channel Astra calculated that, in general, Russian fighter jets dropped at least mega-bombs on their own villages and cities.
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