Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
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The war between Russia and Ukraine has shifted closer to Moscow. In the past week Ukraine has sent drones, made by Ukraine, to Moscow. While many were intercepted, 3 people died when an apartment block was hit.
Ukrainian drones smashed into another Russian refinery overnight, starting a fire that produced huge clouds of black smoke, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest long-range attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry.
Ukrainian drones targeted the Syzran oil refinery in Russia, marking a significant escalation in long-range strikes aimed at disrupting Russian oil supplies amid ongoing military operations.
It’s getting harder for Kremlin officials to cast the war in Ukraine as something so distant that it doesn’t affect the daily routines of Russian civilians.
Over the past months, Ukrainian drones have crashed into the chimney of a power plant in Estonia, hit empty fuel tanks in Latvia and been shot down by Romanian fighter jets stationed in Lithuania. For the first time in a NATO and European Union capital,
Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN, Andriy Melnyk, called on the UN to strip Russia of its permanent membership in the Security Council
Industrial areas around Nevinnomyssk in Russia's southern Stavropol region are under drone attack, Governor Vladimir Vladimirov said on Telegram.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the joint nuclear exercises of Russia and Belarus are a signal to Europe and NATO.