A series of drone movements has oil and electrical infrastructure refineries in western Russia, according to regional officials.
Ukraine has claimed, however, the new wave of attacks is the component of a developing crusade opposed to the comforts of Russian power in recent weeks.
Drone strikes were reported across multiple Russian regions, including Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tver, and Bryansk, igniting fires and triggering air defence responses.
Although there were no reported casualties, an oil refinery in the city of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, has suffered significant damage.
The local telegram channels reported that the drones hit the oil refinery “Lukoil Nizhegorodnefteorgsintante”, in a giant chimney that took hours to control, the independent Kyiv reported.
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Online circulating video sequences have shown flames applied in the installation, which local surveillance equipment has known as the main objective of the attack.
The governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Gleb Nikitin, showed that the air defense systems had intercepted several drones, the decrease in drone waste that falls on the commercial site. It has not been reported.
Former Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Geraschenko, who among those sharing the images, said: “Residents report that the chimney is getting stronger. “
In the Smolensk region, Governor Vasily Anakhin described a civil infrastructure of “mass drone attack. “
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Russian telegram channels bring back a primary smokestack at the oil refinery in Kstovo, a region of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, after a drone strike. The population reports that the chimney is fortalece. pic. twitter. com/f23dmzzdwe
An intercepted drone while looking for a nuclear energy installation, said Anokhin.
Meanwhile, in the Tver region, air defenses destroyed several drones in the city of Andreapol, which houses about 8,000 people, according to Governor Igor Rudenya.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the aerial defenses demolished 26 drones about the Bryansk region.
Bryansk, who is west of the highly militarized Oblast Kursk and north of the Obasts of Chernihiv and Sumy in Ukraine, saw a higher drone activity, but has indicated any injury or damage.
Such movements are of a sustained Ukrainian effort to aim at the Russian energy infrastructure, which has intensified in recent weeks.
Earlier in January, Ukrainian drones reportedly hit multiple oil refineries in Krasnodar Krai, Ryazan, and St Petersburg, temporarily disrupting operations.
Kyiv has increasingly turned to long-range drone attacks in an effort to undermine Russia’s energy sector, a crucial component of its wartime economy.
Russia, directed through President Vladimir Putin, has declared the expanding frequency of such aggression insists that his aerial defenses effectively repel most threats.
However, the chimney and pain in strategic sites that the Ukrainian drone crusade has a tangible impact.
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