Ukraine claims strike on the Russian oil refinery in a great drone attack

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian center to counteract misinformation, said on Telegram that an oil refinery in Ryazan had been beaten, as well as the Kremniy factory in Bryansk that kyiv says it produces missile and other weapons.

Bloggers on Telegram posted fire images and videos at Ryazan’s facilities, which covers about 6 square meters (2.3 square miles). The verified images show the people fleeing the site in cars already foot when a fireball rises to the sky.

BBC Check the video images used to establish the location of two fires in the refinery. A video shows a fire near the north entrance, whose location was combined by the design of the road, signs and fences.

Two other videos show a larger fire on the east side of the refinery, about 3 km (1.6m) away from the first. The location was identified by trees, pylons, road designs and roads.

The Russian state news agency RIA cited a statement from the Kremniy factory in Bryansk, which said the work had been suspended after a six drone attack. Pavel Malkov, the regional governor, said the emergency services were responding.

The Kremlin recognized the attacks, but did not mention damage or low.

He claimed to have destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones, including six on the Moscow region, 20 in the Ryazan region and a number on Bryansk’s border region.

Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow, said that the city’s aerial defenses had intercepted attacks by Ukrainian drones in four locations.

He said that air defenses southeast of the capital in Kolomna and Ramenskoye had also repelled drones, without specifying how many. He said there was no harm.

The Russian news agencies cited Rosaviatsiya, the Federal Aviation Agency, saying that two Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, had resumed flights after suspending operations for a while. Six flights were redirected to other airports.

In the city of Kursk, Mayor Igor Kutsak said the attacks during the night had damaged the electricity lines and cut the electricity to a district.

In Ukraine, the authorities said their aerial defenses had destroyed 25 of 58 drones released during the night by Russia.

The Interior Ministry said that the rubble of one of the drones had killed two men and a woman in the Hlevakha region, kyiv, and that another person had been injured.