Ukraine carried out a large-scale drone attack on several regions of Russia for the second night in a row, Russian officials said on Wednesday, saying that more than 30 drones were destroyed in the air over the Voronezh region. The governor of the Voronezh region, Oleksandr Gusev, announced “minor” damage to the infrastructure and several buildings from falling debris. The drone was also shot down while approaching an oil refinery in the Leningrad region, said the governor of the region, Oleksandr Drozdenko. In the Belgorod region, the debris of the downed drones damaged a gas pipeline and cut off electricity some villages, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, adding that four Ukrainian UAVs.

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07:40An oil refinery in Russia’s Reazan region caught fire after a drone attack, the region’s governor said on Wednesday.

As a result of the incident, several people were injured, Pavlo Malkov reported in Telegram. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, two people were taken to the hospital in the city of Reazan. (Reuters)

Several videos of the fire appeared on social networks, one of them shows the moment when a drone hits an oil refinery and explodes,

00:27 Kyiv announces the destruction of one of the largest pro-Kremlin “information-subversive” networks in Ukraine / The network was managed by a clergyman.

Ukraine’s security service announced on Tuesday that it had discovered and destroyed one of the largest networks allegedly spreading pro-Russian “information sabotage” in the country, led by a cleric of a minority church subordinate to Moscow.

A brief retelling of the last events of the war:

• Russian authorities in several regions declared fires at oil refineries and oil terminals on Tuesday morning after they were attacked by drones. On the same night that Ukrainian drones targeted six Russian regions, anti-Kremlin groups fighting alongside Kyiv reportedly launched an “attack” and carried out cross-border raids.
• Russia’s political and economic elites expect that after the presidential election, President Putin will reshuffle parts of his administration with the help of younger people, bringing some of Moscow’s so-called “red princes” into senior positions.
• France’s National Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a security deal between Paris and Kyiv on Tuesday night, despite abstentions from the far-right and opposition from the radical left and communists.
• The Vatican is issuing an explanation after outrage over Pope Francis’ remarks that Ukraine should have the “courage of a white flag” and agree to end the war caused by the Russian invasion.
• Leonid Volkov, a close associate of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died last month, was attacked with a hammer in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Tuesday, Kira Yarmish, Navalny’s former spokeswoman, said.
• The United States has approved a $3.5 billion missile sale to Poland, the deal was announced shortly before President Joe Biden met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House.
• A Russian missile hit two residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 36, the regional governor said.
• The Legion of Freedom for Russia, the group that has claimed responsibility for several incursions into Russian territory, the latest of which took place on Monday, promised “exciting things” in the run-up to the March 17 presidential election.
• A Russian Il-76 military plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday immediately after takeoff due to a fire in one of the engines.
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said for the first time on Tuesday that Yerevan may withdraw from the CSTO, the Moscow-led military alliance of six former Soviet states.
• Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova most accurately summed up the results of the governors’ publicized struggle against Russian influence in Bulgaria: “Don’t make me laugh.”

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