A drone sparked a fire at the Tyumen refinery, one of Russia's largest privately owned plants. The attack follows a wave of Ukrainian strikes on energy and logistics hubs deep inside Russia.
A fire erupted at the Tyumen oil refinery in Russia's Ural region after a drone attack, the latest strike in an escalating campaign by Ukraine against Russian energy infrastructure. Emergency crews are on site, regional governor Alexander Moor said on Telegram, without specifying the extent of the damage.
The Tyumen facility sits about 1,700 kilometers east of Moscow, roughly 2,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. It was previously hit in June. The plant is one of Russia's largest privately owned oil-processing operations, running at about 151,000 barrels a day. It supplies gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum products to western Siberia and the Urals region, making it a critical node for domestic fuel distribution.
Ukraine has been steadily pushing deeper into Russian territory with long-range drones. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with U.S. influencer Laura Loomer that Ukraine already has drones with a range exceeding 3,000 kilometers and plans to extend that to between 5,000 and 10,000 kilometers by 2027. That would put targets across nearly all of Russia within reach.
Separately, falling drone debris sparked a fire at a parking lot at a Wildberries warehouse in Yekaterinburg, about 300 kilometers west of Tyumen. Operations at the logistics hub have been halted, Interfax reported, citing the company. Since July 18, Ukrainian drones have hit more than 10 logistics hubs and warehouses in Russia, most belonging to Wildberries, the nation's largest online marketplace. The strikes on the e-commerce giant, which some call "Russia's Amazon," have included facilities in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions and in Krasnodar in southern Russia. They are causing billions of rubles in losses and threatening hundreds of small businesses that rely on the platform for distribution.
Ukraine struck a Russian-occupied town in the Zaporizhzhia region of southeast Ukraine, killing eight people and injuring 14, Tass reported, citing Kremlin-backed officials. Bloomberg News could not independently verify the claim.
Russia continued attacks on Ukraine overnight, hitting Black Sea port infrastructure. Drones struck a dry-cargo ship carrying military supplies at the port of Mykolaiv, as well as port facilities in Odesa and Izmail, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Telegram. At least six people were killed and ten injured across Ukraine in the overnight attacks, Zelenskyy said on X. A drone hit a Nova Poshta facility in Sumy. Residential buildings were damaged in Slovyansk and Kharkiv, he said, with Russian forces firing two missiles and about 160 drones.
NATO member Romania, which borders southwest Ukraine along the Danube River, shot down a drone that entered its airspace for the second time in two days, officials said.
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