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Ukraine has fired its largest drone attack on the Moscow region, the mayor has said, hitting the city’s main oil refinery and a residential building.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 450 drones heading for the capital had been shot down in what he called “the most massive” attack. The region’s governor said at least two people were killed and 20 injured.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Kyiv had hit a “key” Russian oil facility and a logistics site in the region with drones and missiles, representing “billions of dollars that sustain the war machine”.

Here’s what we know so far about the latest drone attacks.

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Russia has said it will intensify its strikes on Ukraine, after hundreds of drones struck Moscow, setting a major oil refinery ablaze and striking residential buildings and other targets.

The attack was the biggest on Moscow since the Kremlin launched its Ukraine offensive in 2022. Ukraine fired more than 1,500 drones, 450 of which were aimed directly at Moscow according to the city’s mayor.

The refinery supplies more than a third of the Moscow region’s fuel, according to the defence ministry in Kyiv, which said that some of its petrol, diesel and aviation fuel go to Russia’s military.

The attacks came on the final day of voting in parliamentary elections. Russia’s defence ministry accused Ukraine of attempting to “disrupt the democratic will of Russian citizens” and vowed a response.

Ukrainian officials also said that nine people, including three children, had been killed in Russian attacks in the Kyiv and Sumy regions at the weekend.

Russia and Ukraine have each been intensifying drone and missile strikes on the other’s territory, targeting energy and transport facilities, warehouses and logistics hubs.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Caroline Hawley.

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While Russia’s president Vladimir Putin continues to insist that his, “special military operation” in Ukraine is succeeding, the estimated number of Russian soldiers killed and wounded in this war tells another story; 1.4 million casualties since February 2022. For that loss, Russia has gained just 2% of Ukraine’s land.

This is the story Vladimir Putin is not telling Russians. Amid parliamentary elections this past weekend, the Kremlin has claimed that most Russians back the president and the war, and it has promoted the political careers of thousands of soldiers back from Ukraine.

But what of their fallen comrades? The BBC’s Olga Ivshina has dedicated the last four years of her career to not just counting Russia’s true death toll, but building a picture of who these lost men were. She joins The Global Story’s Tristan Redman to discuss what she has learnt.

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00:00 Introduction
01:14 Searching for missing dead soldiers
2:59 Tracking deaths in Ukraine
07:01 How to find missing Russian soldiers
11:39 Why some Russians sign up to fight in Ukraine
14:01 Russia’s true death toll
19:19 The problem for Ukraine
21:15 Is Putin lied to about the Ukraine war?

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