Ukraine Drone Strike on Moscow Kills Two, Hits Oil Hub — SkimNews
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- Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack on Moscow, with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin saying 650 drones headed toward the capital and most shot down, killing two people and setting fire to a warehouse.
- Regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said 185 drones were "destroyed or neutralised" over the wider Moscow region, with one person killed in Radumlya and another in Barbybino, seven injured, and 47 houses, four apartments, and three cars damaged.
- War blogger Yuri Podolyaka claimed an oil storage tank was hit at the Volodarskaya facility — a major Transneft-linked hub that stores diesel, petrol, and jet fuel and supplies all three of Moscow's large airports — though Russian authorities have not officially confirmed the strike.
- Ukraine has increasingly targeted Russian oil refineries, depots, and export terminals in an effort to deprive Moscow of revenues needed to finance the war that Russia began in February 2022.
- Separately, a Ukrainian drone struck a minibus in Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, killing three people including the driver, according to Kremlin-appointed official Yevgeny Balitsky.
- Russia has reciprocated with intensified attacks on Kyiv, including recent strikes on bridges across the Dnipro River, as the United Nations warns of a significant rise in civilian deaths in the war's fifth year.
Why it matters: The reported strike on Volodarskaya — a Transneft-linked depot supplying Moscow's three major airports — points to Ukraine's escalating focus on Russian energy infrastructure as a war-financing pressure point, with both sides now trading long-range infrastructure blows ahead of winter while diplomacy stalls.
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