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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hanna Arhirova and Barry Hatton

Ukraine says it hit a major Russian oil refinery hours after Zelensky’s meeting with Trump

Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that the country’s forces hit one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries overnight in its latest deep strike as Kyiv extended economic, military and diplomatic pressure on Moscow.

Ukraine’s almost daily long-range drone and missile strikes using domestically developed weapons have battered Russian oil facilities and brought a fuel crisis that is embarrassing the Kremlin more than four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbour.

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