Night Ukrainian drone attacks hit an oil refinery in Russia: A fire broke out!

On Thursday night, Ukraine launched a drone attack on an oil refinery in the Russian city of Ufa in the Bashkir Republic. Debris from one of the drones caused a fire in an industrial area, local authorities said. TASR writes about it based on reports from Reuters and DPA.

  • A Ukrainian drone hit an oil refinery in the Russian city of Ufa at night.
  • Debris from the drone caused a fire in an industrial area, with no reported injuries.
  • Another drone hit a residential building in Ufa, no injuries were reported.
  • Russian attacks on Synelnykov killed one person and injured two others.
  • Russia attacked with 172 drones, of which at least twenty-two hit the intended targets.

Another drone hit a residential building, but no one was injured in the attacks. the leader of Bashkortostan, Radij Khabirov, said on the Telegram social network. Thick smoke rises from several parts of the city. The Republic of Bashkortostan is located approximately 1,400 kilometers from Ukraine near the border with Kazakhstan.

In the meantime, during the Russian attacks in the southeast of Ukraine at least one person was killed in the town of Synelnykovo in the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the local governor, Oleksandr Hanža. A 12-year-old child and a 42-year-old woman were also injured.

The Ukrainian Air Force announced that Russia attacked with 172 drones during the night. At least 22 of them hit their targets.

Ukraine, with the support of Western countries, has been resisting a large-scale Russian invasion for more than four years. As part of the defense, it is also attacking targets in Russia, focusing mainly on the oil industry in order to weaken Russian war financing and disrupt the military’s fuel supply.

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