Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said his forces attacked the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya for the second time in a week as he said it is about time the war ended.

“Last night, our long-range sanctions once again reached the Moscow region – for the second time this week, the Moscow oil refinery was hit. Targets were also struck in the Rostov region and in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

He said the attack was a “fully justified response to Russian attacks on our cities and communities” and against the facilities that “sustain Russia’s war machine”.

“It is time the war ended, and Russia must take the necessary steps in diplomacy,” Zelensky said.

Ukraine is stepping up its aerial attacks on Russia – and in particular its critical oil infrastructure – to demonstrate to allies in the US and Europe that it is now of the offensive and Russia is on the defensive, giving Kyiv the strategic edge to end the war.

Zelensky’s G7 allies issued a joint statement after this week’s G7 summit noting Ukraine’s battlefield progress and that Russia is sustaining record losses.

Flights at all major Moscow airports have been temporarily suspended for safety reasons after a Ukrainian drone attack, Russia’s aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, said this morning.

At least 180 Ukrainian drones had been shot ‌down over ​Moscow, officials said.

Russia faced one of the biggest aerial assaults of the war so far from Ukraine overnight, saying its air defences downed as many as 555 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions.

Moscow’s mayor Sergei Sobhyanin said around 180 drones heading for the capital alone had been downed.

Traffic was halted on Moscow’s ring road near an oil refinery after multiple drone ​strikes, ‌RIA ⁠reported, citing the ⁠interior ministry.

Visuals of the attack were shared online purporting to show massive explosions, including one that blew an oil container lid hundreds of feet into the air.

Several drones are also seen flying in the air and targeting the refinery’s infrastructure.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will join a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, an alliance that provides military aid for Kyiv, at Nato headquarters in Brussels today, secretary general Mark Rutte said.

The meeting comes after Zelensky also attended a gathering of G7 leaders in France, which ended with a joint statement of support for Kyiv and a vow to increase pressure on Russia.

The Admiral Grigorovich, a Russian frigate, fired warning shots after making attempts to contact the yacht, the MoD claimed, in order to prevent a potential collision. Russia’s defence ministry has claimed its sailors were acting “in strict accordance” with international shipping regulations.

While this is being viewed as an isolated incident, it came days after tensions between the UK and Russia spiked when Britain seized a sanctioned vessel transiting through the Channel.

In Russia’s Belgorod border region, local officials said a Ukrainian drone strike killed one man in his car.

On Wednesday, Moscow had accused Ukraine of attacking a bus carrying Belarusian schoolchildren, an accusation Kyiv said was “false”.

In ​the southern Russian region of Rostov, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one, ‌injured two and caused a fire at two commercial facilities, ​local officials said.

Emmanuel Macron has said that president Donald Trump “took notice” of the fact that Russia was not seeking peace.

Speaking at a press conference at the G7 summit, the French president said Washington acknowledged that Moscow was not looking to end its war in Ukraine.

He said the G7 had “showed a real change in the approach from the US on Ukraine”.

Trump had earlier suggested that the US could impose sanctions on Russia if it did not take steps to end the war.

Kyiv has come under attack from Russian missiles in the early hours today, Kyiv authorities ⁠said, as they urged residents to take shelter.

A Reuters witness heard explosions in Kyiv and authorities in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy said one person was killed in a drone attack.

Air strike alerts were issued for most of Ukraine’s territory.

“The enemy is attacking the capital with ballistic missiles. Stay in safe places until the ⁠air raid alert is over!” Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military ​administration, ⁠said in a Telegram post early on Thursday.

The attack came just hours after Trump said Russia was losing more soldiers than Ukraine, after he suggested that both ‌Russian president Vladimir Putin and Zelensky seemed open to doing something about the war.