MOSCOW, June 2 (Reuters) - The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its massive overnight strike on Ukraine was a response to what it called "terrorist acts" against targets inside Russia and said it had struck a range of Ukrainian military targets.

Russia launched a large-scale deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Tuesday, damaging residential buildings, authorities said, as part of a broad offensive on targets across Ukraine.

Ukrainian drones struck a Russian fuel depot, oil pumping station and a refinery in an escalating campaign of strikes against energy infrastructure often hundreds of miles inside Russia.

Russia claims that a Ukrainian drone struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Ukraine has denied the accusation. The IAEA has sought to examine the facility.

From this location, Russian forces coordinated missile and drone strikes on Ukraine The SBU’s Alpha Special Operations Center has struck Russia’s 16th Electronic Intelligence Center of the FSB using drones.

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By Vladyslav Smilianets and Valentyn Ogirenko EASTERN UKRAINE, May 28 (Reuters) - In a corn field in eastern Ukraine, soldiers fired drones into the sky using a slingshot, aiming at military targets in the country's Russian-occupied east,

This is the fifth attack on the oil refinery in Tuapse this spring The Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the oil refinery in Tuapse and fired Storm Shadow missiles at the software and hardware complex of the Russian Air Force’s automated reconnaissance systems,