KYIV, May 25 (Reuters) - Russia urged foreign nationals on Monday to leave Kyiv before it launches a "series of systematic strikes" against defence targets in Ukraine's capital, a day after one of its heaviest bombardments of the city since the start of the war.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned that Russian armed forces would strike defense enterprises, “decision-making centers,” and command posts in Kyiv in retaliation for a strike on a dormitory in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic.

Russia’s Astra news outlet said Ukrainian drones struck the Sheskharis oil terminal and depot, the terminus for Russian state-controlled pipeline company Transneft’s main oil pipelines in the region.

Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent. Rolling digital blackouts in Russian cities have touched a nerve with ordinary citizens and public pushback against Russian President Vladimir Putin is emerging.

At least four people, including three near Moscow, died in one of the largest Ukrainian overnight attacks against Russia since the start of the war, according to Russian local authorities

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