Ukrainian drones struck a Russian fuel depot, oil pumping station and a refinery in an escalating campaign of strikes against energy infrastructure often hundreds of miles inside Russia.
Kyiv said on Sunday it had struck the Lazarevo pumping station in the Kirov region, north-east of Moscow and about 800 miles from Ukrainian-held territory.
Alexander Sokolov, the regional governor, admitted that drones had hit a “facility” and caused a fire.
He claimed there had been no casualties as he called for calm.
The station pumps oil from Siberia to Belarus.
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