Posted on 03/12/2024 5:19:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian drones targeted sites in nine Russian regions, including two energy facilities, in an overnight barrage thought to be Kyiv's biggest since the start of the war, according to reports and social media posts from Russian authorities.
While Moscow has accused Ukraine of repeated drone strikes on its territory, Monday night's strikes appear to have been on a larger scale. In August 2023, UAV attacks on six Russian regions including Moscow were reported as the biggest drone strikes since the start of the war.
Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday that air defenses had destroyed and intercepted 25 Ukrainian drones overnight in the Moscow, Leningrad, Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Tula and Oryol regions. The authorities of the Nizhny Novgorod and Voronezh regions also reported drone attacks.
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Oryol governor Andrey Klychkov said on Telegram that a drone hit a fuel and energy complex in the region's capital city of the same name, causing a fire that was later extinguished.
Local residents shared footage of explosions in the city, with state media agency RIA reporting that a drone strike had caused the evacuation of 17 people from two neighboring buildings.
Authorities in the Nizhny Novgorod region, around 280 miles east of Moscow, said several drones had hit the Kstovo industrial zone, targeting a facility within an oil refinery, where a fire broke out.
Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, confirmed to RIA Novosti that the incident had temporarily suspended operations at processing unit.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region that borders the Ukrainian oblasts of Sumy, Kharkiv and Luhansk and is a frequent target for Kyiv, said a drone strike had left seven settlements without electricity.
Russia's defense ministry said air defense forces in the Belgorod region had shot down one Tochka-U missile
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Agree: “Industry Sources”, Reuters
Lukoil refinery stronk as bull!
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So Russia exports a few less barrels of oil for a couple of months.
The Neocons will not win with pin-pricks, but if that’s all they got left, so be it.
If you have not noticed, Russia started this war and is responsible for continuing it.
DRONE YOU !!!! Is that a thing now ?
Ukr West Armour Graveyard, 4th Abrams, 2 Caesars Destroyed, Ukr/West Despair FAB Bombs, Rus Advance
Probably Euro-funded drones at this point.
Some of mine, probably. Spain gives Ukraine monetary aid through the EU, they like to “give at the office”.
4, out of thousands?
The US sent just 31 Abrams.
Anyway, this thread is about a mass drone attack. Which seems significant, if the Ukes can keep it up.
The effect is rather on domestic supplies of refined fuel. Gasoline and diesel.
Russia already banned gasoline exports, in February, for six months, most likely due to limits on refinery capacity.
Russian petroleum exports are also down btw.
What IL-76 doink?
BTW, on the actual battlefield, Ukraine is losing ground it will never get back DAILY.
There are only TWO choice for Ukraine: Surrender and preserve what is left of Ukraine or continue and losing more and more territory that it will never, ever get back.
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