MOSCOW – The blast was so powerful that the huge disc-shaped lid of an oil storage tank was launched into the sky over Moscow like a frisbee.
Evading Russian air defenses, Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in southeast Moscow on Thursday for the second time in three days, igniting a fierce blaze that spewed out ?clouds of black smoke.
The attacks are part of a wider Ukrainian campaign to cripple the oil industry whose revenues finance Russia’s ?war effort.
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