KYIV (Reuters) -Overnight Russian air attacks wounded eight people, set a private business on fire and damaged residential buildings around Ukraine, local officials said on Tuesday. Ukraine's air force said it shot down 65 drones and 28 more did not reach their targets in the barrage.

A Ukrainian drone attack killed a mother and her toddler in western Russia on Wednesday, local officials said, in a major overnight barrage that set an oil refinery ablaze and targeted a nuclear facility.

Russia is under a large-scale attack by strike drones. The infrastructure in the Smolensk and Tver regions is under attack, according to the Governor of the Smolensk region Vasily Anokhin, and the Telegram channel Pul69.

Ukraine hits second major Russian oil refinery in a week after Zelensky hails Kyiv’s growing long-range drone capabilities as ‘bringing the war back to Russia’

Two people were killed and as many others were injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Wednesday.

Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery 250 miles east of Moscow in a huge wave of attacks on Russian power plants, say military sources. A large fire exploded at the refinery in Kstovo city in the Nizhny Novgorod region following the attack, the Ukrainian military said, adding it was assessing the scale of damage there.

In the early hours of Wednesday, January 29, a drone attack targeted the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in the Kstovo district of Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region. — Ukrinform.