Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Omsk refinery, the country’s largest, located deep in Siberia, in what would be one of the longest-ranged Ukrainian strikes since the beginning of the war, Kyiv’s military said on Monday.
Strike Details
According to Ukraine’s General Staff, the strike caused a fire at the Omsk refinery, which is located around 2,700 km from Ukrainian-held territory and close to Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. Omsk region governor Vitaly Khotsenko confirmed a strike, stating that several Ukrainian drones had reached the area where the refinery is located.
The Gazpromneft-owned Omsk refinery processed around 23 million metric tons of oil daily last year. Ukraine has been escalating a campaign of strikes against Russian oil refineries, causing acute fuel shortages across the country.
Aside from Omsk, Ukraine’s military overnight hit Russia’s Ust-Luga and Vysotsk ports, which handle oil exports on the Baltic Sea, as well as targets in the Kaluga and Yaroslavl regions, local governors said. In Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, one woman was killed in a strike on the port of Kerch, Russian-installed authorities said.
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