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Ukrainian drones set a Moscow refinery ablaze in a major attack on the Russian capital 54%
By BARRY HATTON0%
6/18/2026, 7:24:36 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 34.5% saturation with 286 hits. Analysis detected 2,088 faulty-reasoning hits from 830 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 52.3% and a BS Rank of 54% (9,629 of 20,517 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 53.10% of the article peer group.
Ukraine struck a major Moscow oil refinery Thursday for a second time in a week, sending huge plumes of black smoke over the capital and disrupting hundreds of flights at its airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s full-scale invasion over four years ago, officials said.
Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Russian oil facilities, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for the war and make Russians feel the consequences of the invasion.
Some areas have reported fuel shortages.
The attack by dozens of drones 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.”
The refinery is one of Russia’s biggest, according to its website, producing more than a third of the Moscow region’s fuel.
It was last attacked by Ukraine on Tuesday, but officials said that fire was swiftly put out.
Thursday’s fire at the refinery was “largely contained,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said hours afterward, adding that remaining hotspots were being extinguished.
Some Russian hawks urged the Kremlin to respond with nuclear weapons.
Nationalist Konstantin Malofeyev criticized the military for “fighting at half-strength in a gentlemanlike way.”
“War means victory at any cost,” Malofeyev wrote on his Telegram channel, suggesting the use of “the nuclear weapons that our ancestors created and stockpiled while mobilizing the entire country’s strength precisely for this purpose -– to win.”
“Their action will lead to our counteraction and launching harsher blows, with more powerful weapons,” Volodin said in televised remarks.
Some areas have reported fuel shortages.
Russian independent news outlet Agentstvo reported that one out of every four gas stations has introduced some kind of restrictions.
Authorities in the capital said in a statement hours after the attack that “supplies of oil products to Moscow and the work of all gas stations in the city continue as normal.”
The attack also temporarily halted flights from four Moscow airports, transport and aviation authorities said.
The Russian business daily Kommersant counted more than 500 delayed or canceled flights at the airports, based on their online flight information.
In the greater Moscow region, a drone hit a residential building in the town of Zhukovsky, according to Gov.
Andrei Vorobyev.
Buildings elsewhere were damaged by drone debris, injuring 17 people, including two children, he added.
“Russia is on the back foot: militarily, economically and politically,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on X after meeting Thursday with Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
“Now is the time to provide Ukraine with even greater support and to exert even more pressure on Russia to end the war.”
Zelenskyy held talks Thursday in Brussels with NATO and European Union leaders, and the German and Ukrainian defense ministers signed an agreement to jointly develop an air defense system to counter ballistic missiles.
Zelenskyy described it as the start of an “anti-ballistic missile coalition” and invited others to join.
Russia has relentlessly struck Ukraine with those types of missiles, which air defenses struggle to counter.
“If Putin does not want to end this war and wants to continue it, we will not sit quietly — we will respond,” Zelenskyy said in a voice message to a group chat with journalists.
He has accepted an unconditional ceasefire demanded by U.S.
President Donald Trump, but Putin has refused, and U.S.-led peace efforts have fizzled.
Along with pledges of more diplomatic and military help at the G7 summit, Ukraine recently has gained momentum on the battlefield against Russia’s bigger army, thanks to its high-tech drones, Western officials and analysts say.
Longer-range drones are choking Russian supply lines in occupied regions of Ukraine, in addition to disrupting oil production.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the G7 summit was “very important for Ukraine” because its supporters — crucially including the U.S. — vowed to help it, although he provided no details.
The U.S. under Trump has cut back assistance to Ukraine, leaving the Europeans as the biggest suppliers of military and financial aid.
Trump and Zelenskyy have had a sometimes strained relationship.
“America is with us on Ukraine, that is very important,” Macron said as he and Trump left the Palace of Versailles near Paris.
In other developments Thursday, Russia struck the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine with two glide bombs that killed a 64-year-old man who was fishing in a river, according to Oleh Hryhorov, head of the regional military administration.
A Russian strike on the central city of Dnipro killed one man and wounded nine, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration.
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