Russia Reports Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Oil Facilities Inside Its Territory

Published on March 12, 2024

MOSCOW—Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies. Russia and Ukraine have both used drones to strike critical infrastructure, military installations, and troop concentrations in their more than two-year war. Russia said Ukrainian proxies had sought to cross the Russian border in at least seven attacks which Russian forces had repelled. The Russian-speaking Ukrainian proxies said they had breached the border, a claim denied by Russia. In one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia to date, Russia said it had downed 25 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions including Moscow, Leningrad, Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Tula, and Oryol. Many more drone attacks were reported....