Moscow mayor claims 37 UAVs downed in two hours, oil refinery on fire – photos, videos

Russian authorities have said Moscow came under a drone attack on the morning of 16 June, claiming that 37 UAVs were downed within two hours. An oil refinery in the city is on fire.

Source: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin; Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya); ​​Russian Defence Ministry; Astra, a Russian media outlet; Exilenova+ Telegram channel

Details: Sobyanin first reported drones being shot down at 05:45. According to his subsequent posts, the number of intercepted UAVs had reached 37 by 07:45.

"Emergency service workers are working at the sites where debris fell," he wrote.

As always, Russian authorities did not disclose how many drones may have reached their targets.

Astra said eyewitnesses had reported air defence responding in the settlements of Pavlovsky Posad, Ramenskoye and Zhukovsky in Moscow Oblast.

Update: Exilenova+ reported that an oil refinery was on fire in the Kapotnya district of Moscow.

The refinery is located approximately 15 km from the Kremlin.

Rosaviatsiya reported temporary restrictions at Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) airports.

The Russian Defence Ministry claimed that between 20:00 on 15 June and 07:00 on 16 June, Russian forces had destroyed 172 UAVs over Russian regions and temporarily occupied territories.

For reference: The Moscow Oil Refinery is the largest oil processing facility in the Moscow region, located in the Kapotnya district. It supplies more than a third of Moscow's fuel demand, provides aviation kerosene to the capital's airports and produces around 30 types of petroleum products.

Its refining capacity exceeds 11-12 million tonnes of oil per year.

The refinery produces gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, marine fuel, road bitumen and other petroleum products.

Background: Russia's Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters reported a drone attack on an oil depot. Authorities said a fire had broken out at the facility in the settlement of Poltavskaya. Traffic was also suspended on the road between Poltavskaya and Trudobelikovsky following the attack.

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