‘If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn,’ Zelenskyy warns after overnight strikes in Russia – as it happened

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that “if Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn” as he ramped up his rhetoric after overnight drone strikes on the Russian capital. Black smoke rises from the area of the Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the south-eastern outskirts of Moscow. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Scores of drones ⁠targeted Moscow overnight, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week, Reuters reported. “ We don’t ⁠want this war, we never did, and everyone ​knows it, and our partners ‌know it,” Zelenskyy ‌said in a voice message sent to reporters on a ‌WhatsApp group, quoted by Reuters. double quotation mark But if Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn. Zelenskyy also called on Europe and ⁠the United States to increase pressure on Russia through ​sanctions on ​Russia’s defence and energy sectors ​and broader economy to force president Vladimir Putin ​into ending ‌the war.