For many Muscovites, the first warning that the war was coming closer was not an official alert but drones overhead at night, followed by explosions at the capital’s largest oil refinery.
As Ukraine has stepped up its drone campaign against Moscow this spring, residents in the Russian capital have sheltered in basements, watched businesses burn and found cars spattered with toxic “oil rain” — signs of a conflict the Kremlin has long tried to keep at a distance from the capital.
“If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 18, when Moscow’s main refinery was set ablaze, sending a huge plume of smoke into the sky.
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