Vladimir Putin orders major drone attack as Ukraine hits Kremlin 'oil war chest'

UE, NATO, Politica externa

Russian forces launched a major countrywide drone attack on Ukraine overnight as the death toll from a weekend terror shooting rampage in Kyiv rose to seven. Shortly after the attack was launched Ukraine hit the Black Sea port of Tuapse, sparking a major fire at an oil facility in Krasnodar region. It was Ukraine’s second attack on the Russian facility in less than a week - a previous onslaught sparking a fire that took days to extinguish. The attack by Kyiv’s drone teams was aimed at crippling