New video analysis suggests the major blast that shook an oil refinery on the outskirts of Moscow on Thursday was probably not caused directly by a Ukrainian drone. Instead, the heavy damage and the fuel tank that caught fire appear to have been the result of a Russian air defense interceptor hitting the industrial site.
According to the new findings, the incident occurred during attempts to intercept the Ukrainian attack wave. One of the interceptors launched to defend Russian airspace either deviated from its path or misidentified the industrial facility as a target, then struck the center of the storage complex.
The impact triggered a huge secondary explosion and a large fire that took firefighting crews many hours to bring under control. The revised assessment marks a surprising development in the inquiry into the powerful blast that disturbed the facility near the Russian capital the previous day.
