Russian missile misses Ukraine drone, strikes Moscow oil refinery
An errant Russian defense missile mistakenly struck a major oil refinery in Moscow on Thursday, sending the site’s massive roof hurtling in the air like a flying saucer, jaw-dropping footage shows.
Video captured the Russian surface-to-air missile — meant to take out an overhead Ukrainian drone — miss and fly directly into the refinery’s storage tank, causing a powerful blast that launched the tank’s circular roof into the sky in a mushroom cloud before it crashed to the ground.
The refinery, one of Russia’s biggest, had already been battling flames and emitting thick, black smoke from a Ukraine onslaught when the missile hit, according to the clip posted on Telegram by Yan Matveev, a self-exiled Russian military analyst.
The facility provides more than a third of the fuel used around the Moscow region and had previously been attacked Tuesday.
Moscow authorities said in a statement hours after the blunder that “supplies of oil products to Moscow and the work of all gas stations in the city continue as normal.”
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