Ukraine Hits Russian Refineries as Moscow Strikes Train Station, Ship

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had struck oil refineries in Russia's Bashkortostan and Yaroslavl regions – about 1,300km and 700km from the front respectively.

The attacks were "strengthening the prospects for diplomacy", Zelensky said. "Russia must choose peace," he added, posting a video from Russian social media showing black smoke rising above an oil facility.

Russia's defence ministry said earlier it had downed 605 Ukrainian drones during the night. The governor of the Yaroslavl region, north of Moscow, where Zelensky said a refinery had been hit, said 92 drones had been downed there in what he called the "most massive" attack on the region of the war.

In the Tver region, also north of Moscow, a drone hit a logistics centre belonging to Wildberries, the Russian e-commerce giant that has been heavily targeted over the past month.

Russian missile attacks on Kyiv a day earlier killed at least 17 people and destroyed warehouses belonging to a number of retailers, in what was widely seen as a direct response to Ukraine's campaign targeting Wildberries, widely dubbed "Russia's Amazon". Kyiv was unable to down any of the missiles Russia fired, prompting urgent calls from Zelensky for air defence supplies.

Fresh Russian attacks overnight killed two people at the Lozova train station in the northeastern Kharkiv region. A commercial vessel carrying Ukrainian wheat was also hit in the Black Sea by Russia, killing one person, the Odesa region governor said.

Kyiv has been firing record numbers of drones at Russia, while Moscow has been launching all-time high missile attacks.

More than four years after the start of Russia's large-scale offensive against Ukraine, diplomacy is at a standstill and the two countries are ramping up long-range strikes, causing a growing number of civilian casualties.