Dramatic Incident: Russia Reportedly Strikes Own Refinery in Moscow

A massive explosion and fire erupted at a refinery near Moscow after Russia reportedly struck its own facility by mistake.

Video shows the intense blast sending debris flying through the air.

The incident has drawn significant attention online with dramatic footage circulating widely.

An errant Russian defense missile mistakenly struck a major oil refinery in Moscow on Thursday, sending the site’s massive roof hurtling in the air like a flying saucer, jaw-dropping footage shows.

Video captured the Russian surface-to-air missile — meant to take out an overhead Ukrainian drone — miss and fly directly into the refinery’s storage tank, causing a powerful blast that launched the tank’s circular roof into the sky in a mushroom cloud before it crashed to the ground.

The refinery, one of Russia’s biggest, had already been battling flames and emitting thick, black smoke from a Ukraine onslaught when the missile hit, according to the clip posted on Telegram by Yan Matveev, a self-exiled Russian military analyst.

Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Russia’s oil infrastructure in efforts to cripple one of Moscow’s main revenue sources.

“If Ukraine is going to burn, your Moscow will burn, too,” Zelensky said in reference to Ukraine’s latest onslaught, adding that the attack was part of Kyiv’s attempts to force Putin to the negotiating table.

“It is time to end the aggression, time to end this war,” he said.

Hours before the attack, Zelensky said he had an “important coordination call” with President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron and that he secured additional support from allies at the G7 summit this week.

In response to the Ukrainian attack, Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament, warned that Moscow would respond by ramping up its strikes.