Dozens of Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow Refinery early this morning, causing damage but no casualties, according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. Emergency services are at the scene. The strike follows a series of reported Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil infrastructure in recent days.
A fresh wave of Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow Refinery early Thursday morning, according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, who reported damage to the facility but no casualties. The attack comes just two days after The Zioneer tracked a series of escalating strikes on this same critical infrastructure: on Tuesday, June 16, the refinery — which supplies roughly 40% of the capital’s fuel — was hit repeatedly, initially at 10:19 Jerusalem and then again in a later wave that, by 14:56 Jerusalem, was reported to have ignited a large fire that continued to burn.
Tuesday morning’s first report came from a single Arabic-language source describing a powerful explosion and a halt to large sections of the refinery. By that afternoon, the same facility was struck again, with multiple outlets reporting an ongoing blaze. The mayor’s confirmation Thursday marks the first on-record Russian official acknowledgment of a strike on the refinery this week, though he offered no specifics on the number of drones — only "dozens" — or the extent of operational damage.
As The Zioneer reported earlier this week, the broader drone campaign against Russian oil infrastructure has been intensifying. On Tuesday morning, June 16, Ukraine launched what was described as its largest drone attack yet on Moscow. On June 14, President Zelensky confirmed Ukrainian strikes on a fuel facility in Yaroslavl Oblast and an explosives plant in Tula. A separate incident on the night of Thursday, June 11, saw a fire at a refinery in southwestern Russia after falling debris from intercepted drones ignited the blaze.
It remains unclear whether Ukrainian officials will comment on this morning’s strike, and no independent assessment of the refinery’s current operational status has been released beyond the mayor’s statement.
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