The Omsk facility, run by Gazprom Neft, processes about 460,000 barrels of oil daily and supplies much of Siberia’s fuel, including for military needs. Ukraine’s military reported damage to a key refining unit, while the regional governor confirmed attacks but no casualties, with emergency teams responding.
These strikes are part of a wider Ukrainian drone push targeting Russian fuel tankers in the Sea of Azov and energy sites in Crimea, which caused blackouts there.
Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s largest oil refinery in Omsk, deep in Siberia, on Monday in what would be one of Ukraine’s longest-range attacks of the war, Kyiv’s military said on Monday. Local Russian authorities confirmed the strike.
In a statement, Ukraine’s General Staff said that the strike had caused a fire at the Omsk refinery, located around 2,700 km (1,700 miles) from Ukrainian-held territory and close to Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
Vitaly Khotsenko, governor of the Omsk region, said Ukraine had attacked the refinery and said that Russian air defences had destroyed most of the drones involved in the strike.
There were no casualties and emergency services were working at the scene, Khotsenko said in a post on the Russian messaging app MAX. It was not immediately clear how much damage the refinery had sustained.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, described the attack as “an important achievement for the Armed Forces of Ukraine…Siberia, too, is now within reach of Ukrainian precision strikes.”
The Ukrainian defence technology company Fire Point said its upgraded FP-1 drones carried out the attack and described it as a record for strike drones “not only in Ukraine, but worldwide. Prior to this, the Omsk oil refinery had remained out of reach for Ukrainian drones.”
“The Omsk refinery had remained one of only two refineries in the top 10 that had never been hit by Ukrainian drones,” Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh said in a statement.
“The other is the Angarsk Petrochemical Company in Irkutsk Oblast. Both are beyond the Urals. It was counted on to balance out the fuel crisis after the successful campaign by Ukraine’s Defense Forces.”
Sources told Reuters that the Gazpromneft-owned Omsk refinery processed around 23 million metric tons last year, or around 460,000 barrels per day.
Ukraine has been escalating a campaign of strikes against Russian oil refineries, at times causing acute fuel shortages across the country’s 11 time zones.
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 and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, one woman was killed in a strike on the port of Kerch, Russian-installed authorities said. Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city, suffered a blackout, they said.
S-400 destroyed
Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces strike two Russian fuel tankers in the Sea of Azov, Kerch oil depot, Nebo-U radar, and two S-400 systems in Crimea and Bryansk Oblast.
The 9th Battalion Kairos of the 414th Separate Brigade, in coordination with the Ukrainian Navy, struck two Project 15781 shadow fleet tankers, Kapitan Barmin and Sanar-4, each carrying 7,000 tons of gasoline from Taganrog to Crimea, in the Sea of Azov.
Detachment 13 of the 414th Brigade targeted the Kerch oil depot and Nebo-U radar in Kerch, Crimea, while the 413th Raid Regiment hit an S-400 Triumf launcher in Hlazivka, Crimea, and another in Kosenky, Bryansk Oblast. The operations, part of a broader attack on 47 targets, were reported by USF Commander Robert Magyar Brovdi.
Ukrainian forces conduct HIMARS strikes on Belgorod International Airport, power plant, and gas pipeline facilities in Russia’s Belgorod
Ukrainian forces launched multiple HIMARS strikes targeting Belgorod International Airport, now used as a Russian helicopter base with its fuel depot ablaze, a power plant causing citywide blackouts, and the Belgorod Linear Production Department of Main Gas Pipelines resulting in major fires.
Explosions and power outages were reported across Belgorod, with Ukrainian reconnaissance drones adjusting the strikes. Additional launches were directed towards Kursk Oblast.
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