RUSSIA – Drones have hit a Moscow oil refinery for the second time this week
The attack on the oil facility is the second this week, after a drone attack on Tuesday halted operations at the refinery, according to the Reuters news agency, as widespread damage to Russian energy facilities worsens the country’s fuel crisis.
Reporting from Kazan, Yulia Shapovalova said the refinery is a “strategically important enterprise.”
“It provides a multi-million population of the Russian capital with around 40 percent of petrol and other oil products. It’s still burning heavily while, according to authorities, emergency services are taking measures to put out fires,” she told Al Jazeera.
The regional governor said that in the surrounding Moscow region, a high-rise residential building, an industrial facility and a number of private houses were also damaged in the drone attack. The Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow’s busiest, suspended flights and evacuated people, as several sought shelter in the car park, the airport said in a statement.
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