Zelenskyy Confirms Drone Strike on Siberian Oil Refinery 2,000km Away
Zelenskyy Confirms Drone Strike on Siberian Oil Refinery 2,000km Away

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Russia's Tyumen region in western Siberia, more than 2,000 km from Ukraine. In his nightly video address, he said Ukrainian company Fire Point had developed new long-range drones capable of travelling over 3,000 km and that they had been successfully deployed.

Unverified videos posted online showed smoke and flame rising over what was said to be the burning 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 phrasing often used by Russian officials to downplay successful Ukrainian attacks.

Ukraine's forces also struck an oil terminal at Kerch in occupied Crimea over the weekend, according to Ukrainian media and monitoring accounts. Nasa satellite monitoring showed a fire at the Kerch seaport where the terminal is located. An electrical substation at Bilohorsk was reportedly on fire, with other attacks at Yevpatoria and Sevastopol.

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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 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 struck the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs on Saturday, killing five people and injuring 10, said 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.

Russian bombs also struck an apartment building in Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a six-year-old child, authorities said.

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