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Ukraine deed a Moscow lipid refinery for a 2nd clip successful a week and disrupted commercialized flights astatine Moscow airports successful 1 of its biggest drone attacks since Russia's penetration much than 4 years ago, Russian officials said connected Thursday (June 18, 2026).
The Russian Defence Ministry said that its aerial defences overnight changeable down 555 Ukrainian drones implicit aggregate regions, with astir 200 intercepted arsenic they were approaching the Russian capital.
Several drones deed the Moscow Oil Refinery connected the southeastern outskirts of the city, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
The Russian Transport Ministry said that flights from 4 Moscow airports were halted.
The onslaught came hours aft Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium had held “an important coordination call” with U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron that whitethorn “bring astir important change.” Mr. Zelenskyy said connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) his state had won cardinal pledges of further enactment from satellite leaders attending the G7 acme successful France.
"These past fewer days were precise important for Ukraine due to the fact that it is the reunification of the G7 astir Ukraine," Mr. Macron told reporters arsenic helium and Mr. Trump near the Palace of Versailles adjacent Paris.
"And present we volition proceed to beforehand to assistance Ukraine to defy and to physique up its capableness to support itself and capableness to counterattack," Mr. Macron said.
The onslaught comes arsenic President Vladimir Putin is successful Kazan, 700 kilometres (430 miles) eastbound of Moscow, hosting leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations arsenic Russia seeks to bolster concern and different ties.
The two-day gathering is acceptable to see ways to grow Russia's “strategic partnership” with ASEAN nations that see Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam, according to Kremlin overseas affairs advisor Yuri Ushakov.
