Ukrainian drones destroyed Russia’s largest oil refinery in Omsk, deep in Siberia on Monday.
Reuters confirmed a devastating attack on Russia’s refinery.
Russian authorities described the attack as Ukraine’s longest-range attack of the war.
In a statement, Ukraine’s General Staff said that the strike had caused a fire at the Omsk refinery, located around 2,700 km (1,700 miles) from Ukrainian-held territory and close to Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
Vitaly Khotsenko, governor of the Omsk region, said Ukraine had attacked the refinery and said that Russian air defenses had destroyed most of the drones involved in the strike.
There were no casualties, and emergency services were working at the scene, Khotsenko said in a post on the Russian messaging app MAX. It was not immediately clear how much damage the refinery had sustained.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, described the attack as “an important achievement for the Armed Forces of Ukraine…Siberia, too, is now within reach of Ukrainian precision strikes.”
The Ukrainian defense technology company Fire Point said its upgraded FP-1 drones carried out the attack and described it as a record for strike drones “not only in Ukraine, but worldwide.” Prior to this, the Omsk oil refinery had remained out of reach for Ukrainian drones.”
“The Omsk refinery had remained one of only two refineries in the top 10 that had never been hit by Ukrainian drones,” Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh stated.
DAILY POST reports that the Russian and Ukraine war has lasted for over four years and escalated on February 24, 2022.
