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UKRAINIAN kamikaze drones have hit two Russian oil refineries sparking a massive blaze in a major blow for Putin’s economy.
The dramatic footage shows the key Rosneft depot engulfed in huge flames at Syzran in Samara region.
Vladimir Putin suffers kamikaze drone hits to two more oil refineries in Samara region[/caption] This is the seventh attack on oil refineries in Russia in the past five days[/caption]Another Ukrainian drone struck a second oil refinery at Novokuibyshevsk in the same region.
This came in the wake of intense shelling of Russian border city of Belgorod by the brave anti-Kremlin forces.
Seven multiple launch rocket system shells were shot down on approach to Belgorod, but there were also hits.
The strikes in Samara region come as Russians are headed for a second day of voting in a sham election which will grant the Kremlin dictator another six years on the throne.
The explosions at the oil refineries came around 6am local time, according to reports.
The plants are more than 600 miles away from the nearest Ukrainian territory.
The attack marks the seventh successful strike on Russian oil depots in the past five days.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian oil facilities, vital for supporting Vladimir Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine.
The drone hits are aimed to impede the fuel supplies to Putin’s military machine and to damage his economy as punishment for inflicting a war on Ukraine.
Local officials in the Samara region issued a statement saying: “This morning a fire occurred on the territory of the Syzran Oil Refinery…
“The personnel of the enterprise were evacuated.
“The causes of the fire are being established.”
Despite their lack of candour, there was no doubt it was a drone attack by Ukraine.
As a result of the relentless bombing on oil refineries, the petrol prices are rising in Russia and the Kremlin has been forced to pause money-making gasoline exports.
Major fire damage was caused to oil refineries in Nizhny Novgorod and Oryol regions.
Later Ukraine hit an oil refinery in Ryazan, crucial to supplying Russian capital city Moscow.
In another strike, an oil plant in Rostov region – close to the war zone – was hit.
Friday saw a spectacular explosion at an oil facility in Kaluga region.
Despite Russia’s territorial gains on the front lines in the Donbass and Sumy region, the recent attacks signal victories for Ukraine.
In order to protect itself from Putin’s onslaught, Ukraine is pleading with its Western partners to expedite armament supply.
The Russian tyrant, 71, is all but certain to win another six-year term in the presidential vote that began yesterday and will run until Sunday.
It will be Putin’s fifth term on the job after two already brutal decades with a seeming mandate to carry on a war that has killed 400,000 of his citizens.
But Russians appear to be resisting at the sure win at the polling booths, destroying people’s votes by pouring dye on them, setting ballot boxes alight, and launching fireworks inside polling stations.
A truck burst into flames in the middle of a street in Belgorod as rebels launch cross-border blitz[/caption]