Drones struck two Russian oil refineries located near the country’s biggest oil export terminals on the Black Sea – as Ukrainian artillery battered a border town for a third time this week.

One drone crashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region, located across the Azov Sea from Ukraine, the state-controlled news agency RIA Novosti reported. No casualties or damage were reported.

Another drone attacked the Afipsky oil refinery, situated 50 miles east of the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk. Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said the strike ignited a fire that was later put out.

The facility has the capacity to process 44 million barrels of oil each year.

Russian officials have not assigned blame for the back-to-back attacks on the refineries, but the Kremlin has accused Ukraine of increased drone activity deep within Russia.

On Tuesday, drones hit targets in some of Moscow’s most affluent neighborhoods, leaving two people injured and damaging several buildings.

The US reiterated that it does not support Ukrainian attacks inside Russia — even as Britain and Germany both agreed that Kyiv has a “legitimate” right to defend itself.

Ukraine has denied direct involvement in Tuesday’s strikes and has not commented on Wednesday’s attacks targeting the oil refineries.

In the Russian town of Shebekino located less than 5 miles north of the border with Ukraine, four people were wounded as a result of Ukrainian artillery fire, which also damaged an apartment building, four houses and a school, said governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

The town was previously shelled on Saturday and again on Monday, when two industrial facilities were hit.

Russian-installed officials in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region — one of four Moscow illegally annexed last year – claimed that a Ukrainian rocket attack on a farm in the village of Karpaty had killed five people and left 19 others wounded.

Ukraine’s general staff said in an update that its forces had repelled 22 Russian attacks in the east, where fighting has been fiercest, over the past 24 hours and that Ukrainian aircraft had carried out 11 strikes on Moscow’s troops and military equipment, without specifying where.

Not to be outdone, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that it had pushed Kyiv’s forces back around two settlements in the Donetsk region and that it had destroyed Ukraine’s “last warship” during a missile strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa.

With Post wires