Moscow: On Sunday, Russian officials announced that Ukraine launched numerous drone attacks against energy and refinery plants in the Moscow region and neighboring Tver, igniting fires and destroying thousands of drones in different regions of the nation.
According to leaders and the internet, aircraft dust sparked flames at the Konakovo Power Station in the Tver region, one of the biggest electricity suppliers in northern Russia, and at the Moscow Oil Refinery.
The Russian-led Defense Ministry announced on the Telegram messaging apps that 158 Ukrainian drone launches had been launched immediately, including nine over Moscow and its surrounding area, according to the Russian government’s defense government.
A fire was being put out in a” separate technical place” at the plant, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who claimed some drones had targeted the Moscow plant.
Russia’s TASS news agency, citing fire incident officials, said the blaze was assigned the highest level of complexity, which does need more recovery devices.
The fuel division of Russian oil giant Gazprom owns the plant in the south of the Russian money, Gazprom Neft. Gazprom Neft declined to comment.
The Baza Telegram news channel, which is near to Russia’s security service, said quiet blows were heard near the Konakovo power plant.
Igor Rudenya, the government of Tver, claimed that the city of Konakovo had a fire but that no one was getting electricity or oil. He did not say what was burning.
According to Mikhail Shuvalov, the town city leader for Kashira, Ukraine also made an attempt to use three drones to attack the Kashira Power Plant in the Moscow area. There was no fire, harm or deaths as a result of the assault, he said.
” Electricity is being supplied without issues”, Shuvalov posted on Telegram.
The defence ministry said 46 robots were destroyed over the boundary region of Kursk, 34 over Bryansk, 28 over Voronezh and 14 over the Belgorod areas. Many more were broken over Kaluga, Lipetsk, Ryazan and a report of additional Russian regions, the government said.
There were no accidents as a result of any of the strikes, according to preliminary data. Russia hardly ever discloses the whole scope of the harm caused by the airstrikes by Ukraine.
The accounts were not independently verified by Reuters. There was no response right away from Ukraine.
Kyiv is pressing the US to grant US orders to launch rocket attacks deep inside Russia using allied arms.
With the local drone industry growing fast, Kyiv has been stepping up its attacks on Russia, dramatic energy, defense and transport infrastructure- sectors essential to Moscow’s war efforts.
However, Kyiv claims that it needs to be able to use more potent weapons from the West to harm Russia and hinder Moscow’s ability to carry out its strikes on Ukraine, which it invaded in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s top leaders were in Washington last week, appealing to the United States for what Zelenskiy called,” skills to really and completely” protect the country.
