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Russian refinery burns after drone attack, The Sun reports

The footage-led roundup moves from a nighttime oil-hub fire to frontline drone strikes, damage in Kramatorsk and evacuees arriving in Belarus.

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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 207,310 views.

Massive Ukrainian drone swarm hits key Russian oil refinery sparking inferno and mushroom cloud

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0:00Nighttime refinery-fire footage opens the report; captions attribute the attack to Ukrainian drones.
2:08A separate fire consumes the Kotovo Pole shopping centre; no cause is established in this sequence.
2:36Thermal drone footage and captions describe Ukrainian strikes on Russian personnel and positions.
3:58FPV footage shows attacks on equipment identified as mortars, communications systems and generators.
4:39Street-level footage shows damaged vehicles and apartment fires in Kramatorsk.
6:07Oleshky evacuees arrive in Belarus by aircraft, where medical teams assist passengers with stretchers and wheelchairs.

Flames light up the night beneath a towering plume of smoke in the opening of The Sun's Ukraine war roundup. The channel identifies the burning site east of Moscow as an oil refinery hit by Ukrainian drones.

The upload has drawn about 207,000 views in its first 22 hours. Its headline centres on the refinery attack, but the video is a broader compilation, using on-screen captions rather than a presenter to connect footage from several locations.

For the opening strike, The Sun cites Nizhny Novgorod governor Gleb Nikitin saying that a large drone swarm targeted an "industrial enterprise" overnight. That wording is less specific than the channel's identification of the site as a key oil hub.

A separate sequence shows a major fire at the Kotovo Pole shopping centre in Russia's Leningrad region. The roundup does not establish that this blaze was caused by the refinery attack or by drones.

Thermal images and first-person drone feeds follow, with captions describing Ukrainian attacks on Russian positions, mortars, communications equipment and generators. The focus then shifts to street-level destruction in Kramatorsk: damaged vehicles and burning apartments.

The closing substantial sequence follows an Il-76 transport aircraft carrying residents evacuated from occupied Oleshky into Belarus. Medical teams meet the passengers, helping elderly and injured evacuees onto stretchers and into wheelchairs.

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