Ukraine struck what it said was an oil pumping station 1,500 km (900 miles) into Russia near the Ural Mountains with drones overnight, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv would keep increasing
Ukraine struck what it said was an oil pumping station 1,500 km (900 miles) into Russia near the Ural Mountains with drones overnight, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv would keep increasing the range of its strikes.
Kyiv has stepped up its attacks inside Russia in recent weeks, aiming to knock out oil refineries, depots and ports and cripple Moscow's biggest source of funding for its war in Ukraine, as global prices have risen due to the Iran war.
Zelenskiy said Ukraine's security service had reported a successful strike deep inside Russia, calling it "a new stage in the use of Ukrainian weapons to limit the potential of Russia's war" in a post on X.
He posted a video of smoke billowing into the sky from what he described as a Ukrainian strike inside Russia.
Zelenskiy did not identify the target, but Ukraine's SBU security service later said Ukrainian drones had hit a Russian oil pumping station near the city of Perm overnight. The Russian governor there reported a fire at an industrial facility.
"The straight-line distance is over 1,500 kilometres. We will continue to extend these ranges," Zelenskiy added.
The SBU described the Transneft-owned station as a "strategically important"
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