Ukrainian drones hit pipeline, refinery, fuel depot in overnight strikes

Major fire burning after drone hits fuel depot

Kyiv said it had also struck the Lazarevo pumping station in the Kirov region, northeast of Moscow and around 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) from Ukrainian-held territory, which serves the Surgut-Gorky-Polotsk pipeline, shipping Russian oil from Siberia to Belarus.

Kirov regional governor Alexander Sokolov said drones had hit a facility in the region, but gave no further information.

In the Rostov region, which borders Ukraine's Donbas, the focus of fighting in the more than four-year-old war, authorities in the town of Matveyev Kurgan said a major fire was burning after drones hit a fuel depot in the town, which adjoins the Russian-held part of Donetsk region. Ukraine confirmed the strike.

Governors in the Voronezh and Belgorod regions, both of which border Ukraine, also reported damage, with three civilians injured in Belgorod.