Ukraine says it hit the Ryazan region oil refinery, while Russia’s military conducted a massive attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Military forces struck the oil-processing facility overnight, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Telegram.

The Ryazan refinery, located 193 kilometres southeast of Moscow, is one of the largest in the country with a design capacity of about 340,000 barrels of crude a day — and has been attacked several times in recent months.

It wasn’t possible to independently verify the claims by Kyiv.

The attack follows a record series of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries in November and another of Rosneft’s refinery — in Syzran — was hit yesterday.

Kyiv has sought to reduce Moscow’s offensive potential and ability to supply fuel to its military as nego

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