{"id":49779,"date":"2026-06-18T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49779"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:51:44","slug":"moscow-hit-by-large-scale-ukrainian-drone-attack-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/moscow-hit-by-large-scale-ukrainian-drone-attack-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow hit by &#8216;large-scale&#8217; Ukrainian drone attack: mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Moscow was fending off a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; drone attack from Ukraine, with several drones reaching an oil refinery, the city&#8217;s mayor Sergey Sobyanin said early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv has in the past months stepped up its strikes on Russia, regularly hitting oil-processing facilities and its export hubs in a bid to sap the vital fossil fuel revenues funding Moscow&#8217;s war effort that is now in its fifth year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air defence forces are continuing to repel a large-scale attack. Several drones managed to reach the MNPZ,&#8221; a major refinery in the Russian capital, Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said &#8220;measures are being taken to deal with the consequences&#8221;, without specifying if the refinery was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Sobyanin said just before 7:00 am (0400 GMT) that Russian air defences have destroyed 43 drones during the night.<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian drone strike on Tuesday triggered a fire at a major oil refinery just outside Moscow and caused damage.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether that same refinery was targeted on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began in 2022, Russia has pummelled Ukraine with near-daily aerial barrages of drones and missiles, as Washington-led diplomatic efforts to end the conflict stalled due to the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow was fending off a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; drone attack from Ukraine, with several drones reaching an oil refinery, the city&#8217;s mayor Sergey Sobyanin said early Thursday. Kyiv has in the past months stepped up its strikes on Russia, regularly hitting oil-processing facilities and its export hubs in a bid to sap the vital fossil fuel revenues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49781,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49779\/revisions\/49781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}