Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Tyumen region in western Siberia, more than 2,000km from Ukraine. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy stated that Ukrainian company Fire Point had developed new long-range drones capable of travelling over 3,000km and that they had been 'successfully deployed'. He thanked the Ukrainian military for special operations that 'have reached Tyumen Region in Russia, including an oil refining facility'.
Unverified videos posted online showed smoke and flames rising over what was said to be the Tyumen refinery, also known as the Antipinsky refinery. The Tyumen governor, Alexander Moor, claimed emergency services were working at the site of 'fallen [drone] debris', a phrase often used by Russian officials to downplay successful Ukrainian attacks.
Ukraine's forces also struck an oil terminal at Kerch in occupied Crimea overnight Saturday, according to Ukrainian media and monitoring accounts. NASA satellite monitoring showed a fire at the Kerch seaport where the terminal is located. In a broader wave of strikes against Russian-held targets in Crimea, an electrical substation at Bilohorsk was reportedly on fire, with other attacks at Yevpatoria and Sevastopol.
Russian attacks killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions on Sunday. A 70-year-old woman was killed in Nikopol and nine were wounded in other districts of Dnipropetrovsk. In Poltava, a Russian strike on Saturday evening killed two people and wounded 13, including six children. Russian forces also struck Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs on Saturday, killing five people and injuring 10, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.
Near the Russian border, a bomb attack killed one person on the outskirts of Sumy. In the Kherson region, one person died in a drone attack on a village north of the city of Kherson. Russian bombs struck an apartment building in Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a six-year-old child.
