Ukraine Drone Strike Hits Moscow Refinery Second Time This Week in Major Attack on Russian Capital
Scores of Ukrainian drones bore down on Moscow Thursday morning, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week. Kyiv cast the strike as a response to the G7 sanctions support announced Wednesday. The drone-strike volume on Moscow is the highest in any single 24-hour window since the early-summer Russian offensive began. The Yaroslavl fuel-storage facility was hit Sunday in the same campaign. The structural Ukrainian deep-strike envelope materially expands into Russian rear-echelon targets through the G7 long-range capability commitment.
The Moscow refinery strikes are the structural Ukrainian operational response to the Russian summer-offensive long-range strike volume that has continued through May and June. The G7 communique commitment to provide additional long-range capabilities materially expands Ukraine’s deep-strike envelope. The second strike-this-week on the Moscow refinery is the principal Ukrainian-side signal that the deep-strike campaign is the operative response architecture. The CIA Saturday-night Oreshnik warning remains active; the Russian retaliatory window may compound through Friday-Saturday. The G7 leaders’ communique formally backs Ukraine’s territorial integrity and unites the alliance ahead of any Moscow-deal-next sequence.