Ukraine’s military has announced that it hit oil facilities in Russia, including a major refinery as well as a military airfield for drones and an electronics factory.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said they had hit the oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180 km from Moscow.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has beckoned for “maximum military restraint” after an auxiliary facility close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe, was attacked.
Smoke rose up just one kilometre away from the plant, which has been controlled by Russia since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.
But Germany has signed to finance circa 500 long-range drones produced in Ukraine.
Since 2022, Ukraine has amassed a collection of long-range kamikaze drones.
The Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in the Voronezh region was also touched.
Separately, Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency said its drones hit Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been of strategic use to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine.
The SBU said it also hit a factory in Penza which reportedly supplies Russia’s military-industrial complex with electronics.
Meanwhile, Russia has captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in Donetsk, meaning that Russia, after three years of battle, now controls nearly 20% of Ukraine.
As this happened, an oil depot from Sochi caught fire after a Ukrainian drone hit it.
Sochi is in chaos and its airport has been disrupted.
