Drone Strike Hits Tyumen Oil Refinery in Siberia

A drone strike hit the Tyumen oil refinery in Siberia on Saturday. Local residents heard at least two loud explosions at the facility mid-day. Staff were evacuated and more than 10 fire trucks responded as a thick plume of black smoke rose from the site.

The Tyumen oil refinery is the largest oil processing facility in Western Siberia and lies about 1,550 miles from the Ukrainian border. It produces 44 million barrels of crude per year with a maximal daily output of up to 160,000 barrels per day and also produces millions of barrels of diesel and gasoline annually. Ukraine’s forces also targeted oil and gas sites in occupied Crimea overnight.

Two days earlier, a drone attack by Ukraine on the Russian capital forced the Moscow Oil Refinery to shut down operations indefinitely. That facility supplies about 40% of the Moscow fuel market. Russian forces killed three Ukrainians and injured 45 civilians across the country over the past day.

A six-year-old child was injured in a strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv. Guided aerial bombs destroyed an apartment block in the city. Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov stated on Telegram that the body of a person killed was found under the rubble of a destroyed building.

At least nine Ukrainians were wounded in the Kharkiv apartment attack. Serhii Sternenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s defense minister, wrote on X that there would be no safe regions in Russia. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Myhailo Fedorov said earlier this week that the strikes aim to turn the Crimean peninsula into an island.