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Ukraine has hit a major Russian oil refinery with British missiles, Ukrainian military and security officials said on Thursday. The Storm Shadow missiles caused multiple explosions at the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Rostov, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.