New footage shows a Ukrainian drone being intercepted by Russian air defense near the Moscow Oil Refinery, with the downed UAV crashing into a nearby building and exploding, according to a source reportedly citing Russian air-defense operations.
New footage circulating Thursday afternoon shows a Ukrainian one-way attack drone being intercepted by a Russian surface-to-air missile near the Moscow Oil Refinery, with the downed UAV crashing into an adjacent building and exploding, according to the single source reporting the clip. The event is the latest in a series of drone strikes and countermeasures around Moscow's oil infrastructure this week.
As The Zioneer has tracked, Ukrainian drones have struck the same refinery repeatedly since Tuesday (Jun 16), with the largest reported raid on the city since the war began (10:19 Jerusalem). By Thursday midday, a strike had torn the roof off a fuel storage tank (13:51 Jerusalem), and rare footage captured a UAV caught on a construction crane en route to the refineries (14:44 Jerusalem). The current clip adds a new angle of Russian air-defense activity engaging drones in the immediate vicinity of the refinery.
The clip was first reported by a single source who posts in Hebrew, a channel that has provided several unverified but consistent clips during this week's campaign. No official confirmation from Russian authorities is yet available regarding this specific interception or whether the drone was part of a fresh wave or a residual aircraft from an earlier barrage.
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