Ukraine's Zelenskyy confirms drone strike on refining facilities in Russia's Tyumen region
Ukraine said its drones hit a refinery and four gas compressors as Kyiv intensifies strikes on Russian energy infrastructure to disrupt fuel supplies.
- On Saturday, Ukrainian forces struck four gas compressors in Russian-occupied Crimea and an oil refinery in the Siberian city of Tyumen, continuing Kyiv's campaign against Russia's energy sector.
- This operation aligns with Ukraine's "middle strike" campaign, using drones to hit targets 25 to 200 kilometers behind the front; Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on June 17 that Kyiv aims to turn the peninsula "into an island."
- Commander Robert Brovdi, known as "Madyar," released footage of drones hitting the Hlibivka gas facility, the Henichesk Strait bridge, and the Tavriiska Thermal Power Plant in Simferopol, alongside 13 other military facilities.
- Serhii Sternenko wrote that "local residents reported hearing at least two explosions" at the Tyumen refinery, though Regional Governor Aleksandr Moor claimed the facility was not damaged.
- Russia's oil output fell to a one-year low as the campaign intensifies; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attacks a "justified response" to strikes on Ukrainian cities, adding that "it is time to end this war.
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Ukrainian drones have attacked an oil refinery in western Siberia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says.
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