Russia launches more than 450 drones in overnight attacks while Ukraine strikes oil refineries

BREAKING: Russia launches more than 450 drones in overnight attacks on Ukraine as Ukrainian forces strike Russian oil refineries.

More than four hundred and fifty drones in a single night. That's what Russia sent at Ukraine while most of the country was trying to sleep.

Air defences worked through the dark, but not everything gets stopped. These pictures show Ukrainian firefighters pulling an industrial site back from the flames after the strikes. This is what a night like that leaves behind.

And Kyiv answered in kind. Ukrainian forces hit Russian oil refineries overnight, going after the fuel and the money that keep Moscow's war running. It's the pattern now. Russia floods the sky with drones, Ukraine reaches deeper into Russia's energy system, and each side is betting the other runs out of endurance first.

Four hundred and fifty drones, one night, and both countries woke up to fires. That's where this war is in September 2026.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.