The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces confirmed an attack overnight that hit Russia's Ryazan Oil Refinery and the Ryazan Thermal Power Plant, leaving them ablaze Thursday morning.

Ukraine said on Wednesday it had struck a big Russian oil refinery in an overnight drone attack, and a Russian official said an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on a nuclear power plant had been thwarted.

Ukraine has conducted another drone strike on a major Russian oil refinery, the second such attack in less than a week.

Russia's Defence Ministry claimed it had repelled a massive Ukrainian drone attack overnight. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Videos showed fireballs over a facility in Ryazan, 110 miles southeast of Moscow. Kyiv is seeking to disrupt Russian military logistics and put pressure on the country’s economy by striking its oil industry.

Ukraine on Sunday said that it repeatedly struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region, the second such attack claimed by Kyiv this week. A statement by Ukraine’s General Staff claimed that the country’s armed forces, together with Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, repeatedly struck facilities of the Ryazan Oil Refining Company.

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Russian regional governor of Volgograd, Andrei Bocharov, on Friday said an oil refinery in the region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone

Ukraine has carried out frequent air attacks on Russian refineries, oil depots and industrial sites in an attempt to cripple key infrastructure underpinning Russia's war effort. This week it claimed to have struck and set on fire a Lukoil refinery, Russia's fourth largest, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, east of Moscow.