Ukraine destroys 6 Russian military aircraft and attacks an oil refinery in Russia

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The Ukrainian Navy announced on Thursday that it had destroyed six Russian Sukhoi-34M military aircraft in an overnight strike on Borisoglebsk Airport in the Russian Voronezh region.

The Navy added via the Telegram application that it used the Neptune coastal missile system in the attack. Reuters is unable to independently verify reports received from the battlefield.

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A Ukrainian attack with marches on an oil refinery in Russia causes a fire

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Kiev attempted last night to launch a major attack on an oil refinery in Ryazan province, according to the Russian TASS agency.

The ministry said that a fire broke out at the refinery when debris from a drone fell.

The ministry indicated that Russian forces shot down 4 long-range "Flamingo" missiles and 69 drones while confronting the Ryazan attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday that he had ended a temporary pause in attacks on oil refineries, a pause he had imposed following statements by US President Donald Trump regarding a "truce in the energy sector."

Zelensky stressed that he would not agree to stop these strikes unless the United States provided Ukraine with Patriot interceptor missiles, in light of the shortage that Kiev suffers from in air defense means to confront Russian attacks.

Ukrainian air defenses shoot down 536 Russian drones

While the Ukrainian Air Force announced, in a statement via the Telegram application, on Thursday, that Ukrainian air defenses shot down 536 out of 580 enemy drones launched by Russia on Ukrainian territory last night.

The statement said that Russian forces launched attacks on Ukraine, during the night, using two Kh-59 guided missiles launched from the air over the Black Sea, in addition to 580 Shahed drones and other decoy models, launched from the Russian regions of Oryol, Millerovo, Shatalovo, Bryansk, Kursk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, as well as areas in occupied Donetsk and Gvardiysk in the occupied Crimean Peninsula. According to the Ukrainian National News Agency "Ukrinform".