@c5news: “If Ukraine is going to burn, your Moscow will burn too.” Moscow was covered in noxious black smoke today, reporting causing “oil rain” to fall, after a major attack from Ukraine, thought to be their biggest strike on the capital yet. Ukraine hit the oil refinery for the second time this week in a drone attack that disrupted flights at Moscow’s airports. Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Russian oil facilities in an attempt to cut off the money fuelling its war machine. State media claimed Russia shot down 992 drones, four long-range cruise missiles and 10 aerial bombs in just 24 hours. The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had held “an important coordination call” with the presidents of the United States and France and had won key pledges of further support from this week's G7 summit. “If Ukraine is going to burn, your Moscow will burn too," Zelenskyy said, adding that the attack was part of Kyiv's effort to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. "It is time to end the aggression, time to end this war.” Zelenskyy was expected to hold talks in Brussels later Thursday with NATO and European Union leaders, including about the possibility of a continental system to defend against ballistic missiles. Russia has relentlessly struck Ukraine with those types of missiles, which air defences struggle to counter. The Moscow attack was the latest embarrassment for Putin, after a Ukrainian drone attack on his hometown of St. Petersburg earlier this month as he welcomed foreign VIPs to his showcase economic forum in the city. Thick, black smoke and occasional flames spewed from the Moscow Oil Refinery amid its red-and-white smokestacks on the southeastern edge of the city, about 15kms from the Kremlin and sooty, black rain fell on cars, according to local video. #5News #ukraine #moscow #explosion

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