Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Tyumen region in western Siberia, more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) from Ukraine. He said the attack used new long-range drones developed by the Ukrainian company Fire Point, capable of traveling over 3,000 km, and that they had been "successfully deployed."
Zelenskyy praises effective operations
In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy thanked the Ukrainian military for special operations that "have reached Tyumen Region in Russia, including an oil refining facility. More than 2,000 km from our state border. This is effective work." Unverified videos posted online showed smoke and flames rising over what was said to be the burning Tyumen refinery, also known as the Antipinsky refinery. 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.
Strikes on Crimea and Russian-held targets
Ukraine's forces also struck an oil terminal at Kerch in occupied Crimea over Saturday night, according to Ukrainian media and online accounts monitoring the war. NASA satellite monitoring showed a fire at the Kerch seaport where the terminal is located. In what appeared to be a broader wave of strikes against Russian-held targets in Crimea, an electrical substation at Bilohorsk was reportedly on fire, and there were other attacks at Yevpatoria and the main city of Sevastopol.
Russian attacks kill civilians in eastern Ukraine
Russian attacks killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said on Sunday. A woman aged 70 was killed in Nikopol and nine were wounded in other districts of Dnipropetrovsk, said Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional military administration. Vitali Dyakivnych, head of the Poltava regional military administration, said a Russian strike on Saturday evening killed two people and wounded 13, including six children.
Glide bomb strikes in Zaporizhzhia
Russian forces struck the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs on Saturday, killing five people and injuring 10, said Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor. Fedorov said there had been nine strikes in the city. He said residents could be trapped in the rubble of damaged buildings. Near the Russian border, a bomb attack killed one person on the outskirts of the city of Sumy, local officials said. In the southern Kherson region, the regional governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said one person had died in a drone attack on a village north of the region's main city, also called Kherson. Russian bombs struck an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a six-year-old child, authorities said.
