Evgeniya Sokolenko08:10, 01.09.24

Fires of “level 5 complexity” are reported.

In Russia, they are reporting drones that are attacking targets in the Moscow and Tver regions.

At 7:30 a.m., Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote that the Russians were continuing to repel the attack. The target was the Moscow Oil Refinery, near which one of the UAVs was shot down.

Drones Attack Moscow Region

According to the Russian official, there is no damage or casualties, and there is no threat to the refinery’s operation. As Astra writes , local residents noticed a “torch” burning at the refinery. This “pillar of fire” is usually visible during scheduled fuel burning operations at the refinery, but after the drone attack it allegedly burns more intensely.

In addition, a state district power plant in the Moscow region was hit, as well as a state district power plant and gas distribution network located several kilometers away from it, in Konakovo in the Tver region.

After the UAV attack, a fire broke out near the local state district power plant and near the Konakovo gas distribution network (GDN), which is a technological part of the KGMO-Konakovo main gas pipeline.

Two power plants attacked in Russia

TASS writes that firefighters left for the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya after receiving information about the fire. This was a “call for level 5 complexity”. It was subsequently assigned the highest level.

The Russian Defense Ministry claims that 158 ​​Ukrainian aircraft-type drones were shot down last night in the Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Moscow, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Tula, Tambov, Smolensk, Oryol, Tver and Ivanovo regions.

Drone strikes in Russia

Ukrainian factories now produce hundreds of attack drones a month at a fraction of the cost of their Western counterparts. One company told the BBC that it had already created a disproportionate impact on Russia’s military economy at relatively little cost.

The drones are made of wood and assembled in former furniture factories in Ukraine. Serra-Martins, a former Royal Engineer in the Australian Army, describes his drones as “essentially flying furniture – we assemble them like Ikea”. It takes about an hour to build the fuselage, and another hour to fit the “brains” – the electronics, engine and explosives – into it.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is leading technological progress in the field of drones . At the same time, Forbes wrote that Ukraine has displaced Russia from the pedestal of the world leader in the field of drones.

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