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Moscow Mayor Reports Largest Drone Attack as Zelensky Claims Strike Hit Oil Facility

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian capital came under its largest attack to date on August 20. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said later that day on X that Ukraine’s long-range strikes on the Moscow region overnight had a “very significant impact,” with an important Russian oil industry facility and a logistics facility hit.

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The strategic logic here is escalation by infrastructure: Ukraine is signaling that Russia's energy and logistics nodes inside the Moscow region are now reachable at scale, not just at the border. That matters for refined-product flows and for how Moscow prices domestic risk. Whether these strikes become a sustained campaign or remain episodic is the open question.

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