Two dead after Ukraine strikes on Russian city and refinery on day two of presidential vote

A woman registers to vote in Russia's presidential election in Moscow on March 16th. Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty ImagesA Ukrainian missile attack killed two people in western Russia and a separate drone strike set an oil refinery ablaze on Saturday, the second day of an election that president Vladimir Putin has accused Kyiv of trying to disrupt.

Dmitry Azarov, governor of the Samara region 850km southeast of Moscow, near the border with Ukraine, said the Syzran refinery was on fire but an attack on a second refinery had been thwarted.has staged repeated strikes this week on Russian refineries. Russia mounted its deadliest attack in weeks on Friday when its missiles hit a residential area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 70.

Aged 71 and in power as president or prime minister since the last day of 1999, he dominates Russia's political landscape and none of the other three candidates on the ballot paper presents any credible challenge. Russia’s governing party, United Russia, said on Saturday that it was facing a widespread denial of service attack – a form of cyberattack aimed at paralysing web traffic – and had suspended non-essential services to repel it.

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