Ukrainian kamikaze drones blow up another major Russian oil depot as Putin’s sham elections enter final day

UKRAINE sent in kamikaze drones to disrupt Vladimir Putin’s sham elections this weekend, blowing up another major oil depot.

Dramatic footage shows the intense fire that unfurled at the plant in Krasnodar after Zelensky’s ferocious rockets hit overnight.

Ukranian kamikaze drones attack an oil refinery in the south of Russia overnight

The sky is lit up by the explosion overnight

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Despot Putin is raging at those protesting his sham election[/caption]

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A woman casts her ballot on the last day of Russia’s elections today[/caption]

Russia admitted to having to shoot down as many as 35 drones in Ukraine’s fierce attack.

At least two struck the oil refinery at around 3am, in the same region where Vlad has two palaces.

The embarrassing security breach comes on day three of his sham elections which have been met with widespread criticism even inside Russia.

Some Russians have already carried out attacks at the polling stations, spoiling ballots with bright green dye or setting fire to a booth.

One woman even allegedly threw a petrol bomb near a station.

And anti-Putin protesters have been urged to storm polling stations across Russia at midday today to enact the wishes of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Putin, 71, is said to be furious with the way Russians have so far sabotaged his presidential election with protests and stunts.

Ukraine’s highly successful air campaign this week is surely creating a similar reaction as it further disrupts his fake exercise in democracy.

This morning’s strike on the Slavyansk refinery is the eighth in six days, and overpowered the work of Russian air defences.

This week marks Ukraine’s most intense aerial barrage against Russia in two years of war.

The attacks not only paint Putin’s defences in a weak light, but hike oil prices and damage his economy.

The Belgorod region also came under fresh fire as four drones dropped explosive devices on the village of Oktyabrsky, damaging  electricity supply lines.

Russia claimed to have downed six of Ukraine’s drones around Moscow on the final day of voting which will surely see Putin secure another term in a landslide win.

Ukraine’s ferocious efforts coincide with the tenth anniversary of Putin annexing Crimea this week.

Opposition leader Dmitry Gudkov spoke to The Sun about the protests expected later today.

He said: “We want queues of people to appear at different polling stations, so that everyone can see lines of people who came against Putin and against the war.

“The main task is to demonstrate the fact that Putin does not have much support, that there is a huge number of people who oppose the war.

“The main task is to strike at the legitimacy of this Putin government.”

Putin’s henchman Dmitry Medvedev today demanded that draconian treason laws, not election laws, be used against any “traitorous, scumbag” protestors.

The former president said: “They are traitors, and their actions can be classified much more strictly,” adding that their “high treason” amounted to offering “assistance to a foreign state during a war”.

He continued: “This is not a child’s game of matches or an innocent prank with greenery.

“This is direct assistance to those degenerates who are shelling our cities today.

“Criminal activists at polling stations must realise that their actions could result in twenty years [of jail].”

Footage catches the moment a woman pensioner sets fire to a voting booth

A woman pours green liquid into a presidential election ballot box in Moscow

A woman allegedly throws a petrol bomb near a polling station