Ukraine Flexes With Much Deeper Drone Reach Targeting Russia’s Refineries

Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack this week, resulting in significant destruction. This, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday announced, “a new stage in the use of Ukrainian weapons to limit the potential of Russia’s war.“ The massive Tuapse complex on Russia’s Black Sea coast has been hit no less than three times in under a month, sparking a series of massive fires that in some cases took days for emergency crews to extinguish. In some cases, targets in the Urals – nearly 1,000 miles away from the Ukraine border – have been hit. Transneft’s oil pumping and distribution facility in the city of Perm was struck this week, which lies very far into Russian territory. The Ukraine Security Service (SBU) owned up to it, boasting that the targeted facility is “a strategically important hub of the main oil transportation system.” It further declared that “almost all oil storage tanks are on fire.“ Amid the fresh Perm attack, Russia had said it downed nearly 100 Ukrainian drones across various regions, while Russia’s presidential envoy to the region, Artem Zhoga, conceded that “The Urals are now within reach, be vigilant.” Putin’s office has also denounced these fresh [...]
2026-05-04 05:53:27