Ukraine brings the war to Moscow as huge blasts shake refinery

MOSCOW, Jun 18: 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 defences, 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. But by striking with apparent impunity at a piece of critical infrastructure located inside Moscow's ring road.�"REUTERS