Ukrainian drones hit oil refinery in Russia’s Tyumen region more than 2,000km away

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address that Ukrainian drones successfully attacked an oil refinery in the Tyumen region, more than 2,000 km from Ukraine’s border. He thanked the Ukrainian military for special operations that "have reached Tyumen Region in Russia, including an oil refining facility." Zelenskyy noted that the Ukrainian company Fire Point has developed new long-range drones capable of traveling over 3,000 km and they had been "successfully deployed."

Unverified videos posted online showed smoke and flames rising over what was said to be the Tyumen refinery, also known as the Antipinsky refinery. The Tyumen governor, Alexander Moor, claimed emergency services were working at the site of "fallen [drone] debris" – phrasing often used by Russian officials to downplay successful Ukrainian attacks.

Over Saturday night, Ukrainian forces struck an oil terminal at Kerch in occupied Crimea, according to Ukrainian media and monitoring accounts. NASA satellite imagery 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 attacks at Yevpatoria and Sevastopol.

Russian forces struck the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs on Saturday, killing five people and injuring ten, said regional governor Ivan Fedorov. He reported nine strikes in the city and said residents could be trapped under rubble. Near the Russian border, a bomb attack killed one person on the outskirts of Sumy, local officials said. In the southern Kherson region, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said one person died in a drone attack on a village north of the main city. Three children were injured when the central city of Poltava came under Russian shelling. Russian bombs struck an apartment building in Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a six-year-old child.