A new drone bomber may have joined Ukraine’s escalating assault on Russia’s oil industry. On Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, drones operated by the Ukrainian 14th Separate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment struck a pumping station on the Druzhba pipeline along the Russian-Belarusian border in Bryansk Oblast.

Kyiv says it struck a Russian oil refinery and a microchip factory in attack which Moscow says contained 120 drones

Drone strikes were reported across multiple Russian regions, including Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tver, and Bryansk, igniting fires and triggering air defence responses. While there were no reported casualties, an oil refinery in the city of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, suffered significant damage.

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region, that Ukraine has controlled for five months.View on euronews

Ukraine said it had struck a Russian oil refinery and a microchip factory in a huge drone attack that caused fires at the refinery's production facilities and an oil pumping station.

Last month, the Defense Forces' drones hit or destroyed 7% more targets than in December, according to the commander. FPV drones made up the largest share of hits, accounting for 49%. Read also: Russia launches overnight attack on Ukraine with 77 drones and 2 ballistic missiles The 46th Airmobile,

The Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces conducted an attack on the airport in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, from where the Russians launched strike drones against Ukraine. The General Staff in Kyiv reported that the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces attacked the airport in Russian Primorsko-Akhtarsk.