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Ukraine staged major drone strikes on Russian capital Moscow soon after accusing Vladimir Putin of searching for to thwart Donald Trump’s ceasefire demand.
A serious oil refinery was also hit in a strike, triggering ten explosions followed by an enormous inferno – just 55 miles from Putin’s £1 billion clifftop palace on the Black Sea.
Vnukovo airport – utilized by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff to go away Moscow after meeting Putin and his top officials – was closed.
It was the second major Ukrainian attack on Moscow in three days, and seemed to be a direct response to Putin setting multiple conditions for any ceasefire.
The inferno at Tuapse Oil Refinery got here after ten deafening explosions, considered orchestrated by drones.
Huge flames and thick black smoke rose after the strike and the hearth spread quickly. Greater than 120 firefighters fought the blaze.
Krasnodar regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said: ‘The Kyiv regime attacked the oil complex in Tuapse. Considered one of the gasoline tanks caught fire.’
Moscow was also rocked by drone strikes, causing automotive alarms to go off ‘en masse’, based on an eyewitness.
The strikes were near Putin’s usual highway route from his official residence in Moscow to the Kremlin.
One other strike was near a metro station, with further ones damaging roofs and windows of residential buildings.
A chunk of a misfiring Russian Pantsir air defence system was filmed by a passerby within the Moscow region.
Days ago, Ukraine launched what was its largest drone attack yet against Moscow on the identical day peace talks began with delegates in Saudi Arabia.
Exploding drones targeted high-rise residential buildings within the Russian capital, days after Ukraine’s vital infrastructure was hit in an onslaught from Vladimir Putin’s troops.
Russian air defences claimed to have intercepted and destroyed 337 of the Ukrainian drones over ten regions at night, including 91 around Moscow, and 126 drones over the Kursk region, which is partially under Ukrainian control.
All 4 foremost Moscow airports – Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukova and Zhukovsky – were disrupted by the drone onslaught, delaying flights and cancelling others.
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