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A record wind speed of 114mph has been recorded in Ireland as Storm Eowyn causes widespread disruption on both sides of the Irish Sea.

Red warnings for wind cover the entirety of Ireland and parts of Scotland as the storm brings staggering winds that pose a danger to life.

Trains and flights across the UK face cancellation or disruption on Friday, while schools in Northern Ireland and central and southern Scotland have been urged to shut.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled, including at airports in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and Dublin.

London Heathrow Airport also reported cancellations on Friday and a “small number” on Saturday, a spokesperson for the airport said.

A string of public authorities have warned the public to travel only if absolutely necessary and National Rail has advised passengers to check for travel advice before travelling.

Red warnings for wind in Northern Ireland are in place from 7am until 2pm on Friday, and 10am to 5pm for western and central areas of Scotland.

Yellow wind warnings are also in place for the whole of the UK, while an amber warning covers northern England and northwest Wales from 6am until 9pm.

Ukraine reportedly hit a Russian oil refinery and targeted Moscow during an attack involving a wave of at least 100 drones, one of the largest single operations of its kind during the war.

Video footage verified by the BBC shows a fireball rising over the refinery and pumping station in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, which Ukrainian officials said was a target.

Russia said it had shot down 121 drones that had targeted 13 regions, including Ryazan and Moscow, but reported no damage.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian authorities said three people were killed and one was injured when a Russian drone hit a residential building in the Kyiv region.

Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s centre for countering disinformation, said on Telegram that an oil refinery in Ryazan had been hit, as well as the Kremniy plant in Bryansk. Kyiv says the facility produces components for missiles and other weapons.

Bloggers on the social media site Telegram posted images and videos of fires raging in Ryazan. Footage verified as genuine by the BBC shows people fleeing from the site in cars as a blaze takes hold.

Russian state-owned news agency RIA cited a statement from the Kremniy plant in Bryansk, which said work had been suspended after an attack involving six drones. Pavel Malkov, the regional governor, said emergency services were responding.

The Kremlin acknowledged the attacks but made no mention of damage or casualties.

It claimed to have destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones, including six over the Moscow region, 20 in the Ryazan region, and a number over the border region of Bryansk.

A senior Hamas official said Thursday that the terror group will provide Israel on Friday with the names of the four hostages it will release on Saturday, in the second exchange of hostages for Palestinian security prisoners as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement.

Speaking to the Qatari Al-Araby news outlet, senior Hamas leader Zaher Jabarin said, “Tomorrow we will give the mediators the names of the four hostages who will be released.”

Jabarin, who is in charge of the group’s activities in the West Bank, lives in Istanbul and is a Hamas leader in exile.

The second exchange of the deal is set to take place on Saturday afternoon, when Hamas is expected to release four women — both soldiers and civilians.

Hamas had also been expected to provide Israel with details on the status of the 30 remaining hostages due to be freed in the first stage of the deal, providing long-sought specifics on which hostages were alive.

However, the Kan public broadcaster, citing security officials, said Israel was bracing for the probability that Hamas would only provide the number of living hostages, and not specific details or names.

Even so, the number of living hostages would allow Israel to prepare the appropriate number of Palestinian security prisoners to be released.

On Wednesday, Hebrew media reported that Israel told Hamas that it expects the terror group to free hostage Arbel Yehud in Saturday’s exchange.

Israel has asked the United States for an additional 30 days to carry out the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon, according to Hebrew media reports Thursday, days ahead of the 60-day deadline stipulated in the fragile ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.

Under the terms of the November 27 truce agreement that ended a war started by Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces is required to cede all of its positions in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese Armed Forces by January 26. At the same time, Hezbollah is required to retreat north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border with Israel.

In recent weeks, however, Israel has assessed that the Lebanese army has deployed too slowly across the region, delaying the IDF’s withdrawal as a result. IDF soldiers are continuing to find Hezbollah weapons caches in areas covered by the truce, and army officials have reportedly said that Lebanon’s army is in some locations helping the Iran-backed terror group.

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