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BBCUkraine reportedly hit a Russian oil refinery and targeted Moscow in an attack with a wave of at least 100 drones, one of the largest single operations of its kind during the war.
Footage checked by the BBC shows a ball of fire rising above an oil refinery and pumping station in the Ryazan region, south-east of Moscow, which Ukrainian officials said was a target.
Russia said it shot down 121 drones targeting 13 regions, including Ryazan and Moscow, but did not report any damage.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian authorities said three people were killed and one injured when a Russian drone crashed into a residential building in the Kiev region.
Andriy Kavalenko, the head of the Center for Combating Disinformation of Ukraine, said that the oil refinery in Ryazan, as well as the Kremei plant in Bryansk, were targeted in the telegram. KYIV says the facility produces components for missiles and other weapons.
Bloggers on social media site Telegram posted images and videos of the fires raging in Ryazan. Footage verified by the BBC, which has been verified as authentic, shows people fleeing the site in cars as it engulfs.
Russia’s state news agency RIA cited a statement from the Krenya plant in Bryansk as saying that work had been suspended following an attack involving six drones. Pavel Malkov, the regional governor, said that emergency services are responding.
The Kremlin acknowledged the attacks, but did not mention the damage or casualties.
He claimed to have destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones, including six in the Moscow region, 20 in the Ryazan region, and a number in the border region of Bryansk.
Sergei Sabian, the mayor of Moscow, said that the city’s air defense intercepted attacks by Ukrainian drones in four places.
He said air defenses southeast of the capital in Kalamen and Ramenskaya also pushed back the drones, without specifying how many. He said there was no harm.
ReutersRussian news cites Razaviatsiya, the federal aviation agency, as saying that two Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, have resumed flights after suspending operations for some time. Six flights were diverted to other airports.
In the city of Kursk, Mayor Igor Kutaks said that on the night of the attacks, he damaged power lines and cut off electricity in one district.
In Ukraine, officials said its air defenses destroyed 25 of the 58 drones launched by Russia overnight.
The Interior Ministry said debris from one of the drones killed two men and a woman in the Khlevakh region of Kyiv and that another person was injured.
