Ukraine Strikes Siberian Refinery in Deepest Attack of War
Ukrainian drones hit the Omsk refinery — Russia’s largest, some 2,500km from Ukraine — in the deepest strike of the war, with President Zelensky saying his country’s “long-range sanctions” now reach Siberia. The attack answered a weekend in which Russia’s barrages killed at least 22 people across Ukraine, including at least 19 in Kyiv, where rescue operations at two destroyed residential blocks concluded today.
Omsk extends the refinery campaign that has already produced fuel queues across Russia’s regions and emergency tax measures from Putin — and reaching it required drones with genuinely new range, a capability message delivered deliberately on the summit’s eve. The exchange defines the war’s current shape: Russia converts its missile advantage into mass-casualty strikes on cities that Ukraine’s depleted Patriot stocks cannot stop, while Ukraine converts drone range into pressure on the fuel economy Russia’s war effort runs on. Both sides are escalating precisely because negotiations may be near. Watch Russian fuel-market data, and what air-defence numbers emerge from Ankara tomorrow.