Ukraine has launched a large-scale long-range drone attack targeting several regions in Russia including the huge Ryazan oil refinery, after three days of massive strikes by Moscow against Ukraine.

Kyiv’s attack on Friday followed a series of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine , including on the capital, Kyiv, where a cruise missile hit an apartment block on Thursday, killing 24 people including three children.

The final death toll in Kyiv emerged as emergency teams finished digging through the rubble of a nine-storey block which was hit in what the Ukrainian air force said was Russia’s biggest barrage of the country since it launched its all-out invasion in February 2022.

Rescue workers stand in the yard of an apartment building heavily damaged after a Russian strike in Kyiv.…