Russia was hit by two new kamikaze drone strikes on oil refineriesas Ukraine targets Vladimir Putin’s economical centres.

Footage showed a massive blaze at Syzran in Samara region with huge flames at the key Rosneft installation.

Another Ukrainian drone hit a second oil refinery at Novokuibyshevsk in the same region.

This came as Russian border city Belgorod again faced intense shelling from Ukraine.

The strikes in Samara region came as Russians prepared for a second day of voting in what is widely seen as a rigged election to ensure the Kremlin dictator, 71, wins a new six-year term with a seeming mandate to carry on a war that has seen some 400,000 of his people killed or maimed.

The explosions at the Samara region plants came around 6am, according to reports.

The refineries are more than 600 miles from the nearest Ukrainian territory.

It means Ukraine has successfully hit seven oil refineries in five days.

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