Live blog: Ukraine says it hit Russia's long-range drone production site

Ukraine's drone attack hit the CDU-7 primary oil refining unit at the Taneco refinery, according to footage showing the impact of the attack analysed by Reuters. / Photo: Reuters ArchiveA Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Tatarstan region has hit a facility where Russia produces long-range"Shahed" attack drones that it uses to bomb Ukraine, a Kiev intelligence source told Reuters news agency.

A defence source in Kiev told AFP news agency that Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency was behind the strikes, which it said hit facilities assembling Iranian-designed Shahed explosive drones. Nine drones were shot down over Dnipropetrovsk region where debris caused two fires in the regional capital of Dnipro, the governor said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app, adding they had both been put out.

The seized cargo comprised 70 kilos of home-made explosives and explosive devices"hidden in icons and ready for use".Russia and Ukraine have claimed to have downed each other's drones over the Black Sea, with both sides apparently devoting increasing attention to developing and using unmanned aircraft in their more than two-year-old war.

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