Fires at Russian energy plants after Ukraine drone attacks

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Fires at Russian energy plants after Ukraine drone attacks

Ukraine has launched a wave of overnight drone attacks on Russia, causing fires at two Russian energy facilities.

According to Russia’s defence ministry, more than 158 Ukrainian drones targeted 15 regions of the country, including the capital Moscow.

The Russian military claimed that these drones were intercepted and destroyed.

But as a result of the ******* a ***** has broken out at an oil refinery in Moscow in a “separate technical room”, the city’s mayor said.

Sergei Sobyanin reported that at least 11 drones targeted the capital city and the surrounding areas.

Meanwhile, 75 miles (120km) from the Russian capital, in the Tver region, loud blasts were heard close to the Konakovo Power Station.

Russian media are reporting a ***** at the facility.

The region’s governor, Igor Rudenya, acknowledged a ***** caused by an ******* in Konakovsky district had been contained, without providing details of what was hit.

Local officials also said drones attempted to ******* the Kashira Power Plant in the Moscow region – but that there were no fires, damage or casualties as a result.

Ukraine has not commented on the claims.

But Ukrainian forces have been stepping up long-range strikes inside Russia over the past few months, launching scores of drones simultaneously at strategic targets several times a week.

BBC News has been told that Western technology and finance are helping them carry out hundreds of long-range strikes inside Russia.

In Ukraine, a 23-year-old lorry driver was ******* after a Russian air strike on a grain convoy in the Sumy region overnight, local officials have said.

Prosecutors said four others were injured in the ******* after one lorry caught ***** and around 20 others were damaged.

Ukraine’s air force also said it had destroyed eight out of 11 drones used by Russia, adding that grain and agriculture facilities had been targeted in the Mykolaiv region as well.

Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukraine has been carrying out a military incursion for nearly a month.

Progress has slowed in recent days, but Ukraine claimed last week it controlled 1,294 sq km (500 sq miles) of territory – including 100 settlements. It also said nearly 600 Russian soldiers had been captured.

Meanwhile, Russian forces are continuing to advance rapidly on a key town in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region – which has been the focus of Moscow’s ground offensive for months.

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, as it is home to a key railway station and is located at the intersection of several important roads.

Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi described the situation in the area of Russia’s main ******* as “difficult”, but added that all necessary decisions are “being made without delay”.

The most recent Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy facilities also come a day after a Russian guided ***** strike on a playground in Kharkiv

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A similar ******* on a residential building in the city in north-eastern Ukraine also ******* six other people.

It also follows Russia hitting Ukraine’s energy grid with a

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last week – which led to at least nine people being ******* over two days.

Russia began targeting Ukraine’s energy system with air strikes shortly after it began its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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