The Lukoil-Nizhegorodorgsintez plant is the fourth-largest oil refinery in Russia, second-largest producer of gasoline, and Lukoil's largest refinery.

Ukraine is engaged in a campaign in Crimea to take out Russian air defenses, sever vital supply lines, and cripple the peninsula's energy grid and fuel reserves.

Iryna Moskaeva and her children jumped out of their beds and started running after an explosion rocked their Kyiv apartment early on Thursday, one of many residential buildings hit during a massive Russian attack that killed at least 27 people across the Ukrainian capital.

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine's capital, killing at least 21 people and prompting President Zelenskyy to call for sped-up weapons support from his partners.

Fire and explosions destroyed a significant portion of the production complex. The company has preliminarily estimated the damage at hundreds of millions of dollars. Read also: Two killed and five wounded in Russian strike on passenger bus in Kherson Ukraine's State Emergency Service said firefighters have extinguished the large blaze.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that it launched a "massive strike using long-range precision air, land, and sea-based weapons and attack drones."

Other areas in Sumy region and in southeastern Ukraine, closer to the front lines, also came under Russian attack, killing a total of six people.

How did the Ukrainian Flamingo operate in Volgograd? In Russia, the defense plant Titan-Barrikady in Volgograd, where components for missile systems are produced, sustained significant damage as a result of a missile strike,