Kyiv reaches refinery in Russia more than 1,500 km from the border

Dukrainian rones reached the Bashneft oil refinery complex in Russia, more than 1,500 kilometres from the border between the two countries, while Moscow launched new attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, indicated army and local sources.

Sources familiar with the attack informed Bloomberg about the impacts of Ukrainian drones, a circumstance that was not officially confirmed either by the Russian authorities or the refinery parent company Rosneft PJSC, advanced the news agency Europa Press (EP).

Also the Russian independent medium Astra reported, through the Telegram platform, that, in Ufa, capital in the Bascortoton region, located in Eastern Europe, “the Bashneft Novoil refinery burns due to a drone attack”, an information she said was confirmed by photographs.

Bashneft-Novoil is a major refinery complex in Ufa, which has three of these facilities in the north of the city, and produces high-quality Euro-6 gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel and lubricants.

This infrastructure had been attacked on September 21, after which Ukraine ceased attacks on Russian refineries under pressure from the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

On Friday, Ukraine had already reached a major Rosneft PJSC refinery in Samara, which is the first confirmed attack on a Russian factory of this type in the last two weeks.

Kyiv seems to have focused on factories, data and logistics centers, chemical industries and airports, refers to EP.

Ukrainian forces also attacked today, with missiles, the Kamensky factory in Rostov (south), where rocket fuel is manufactured, according to the Ukrainian army.

Meanwhile, Russia continues to attack Ukrainian infrastructure such as Black Sea ports, electrical installations, bridges and railways.

Russian drones Shahed hit a power plant in Kyiv and several electrical substations were attacked at Dnipro (southeast).

Russia reported attacks on transport infrastructure used by Ukrainian forces, drone and ground robots storage centres, ammunition warehouses and launch points.

Last night, anti-aircraft defenses shot down a total of 433 long-range Ukrainian drones in 19 Russian regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported in its morning report.

In the border area of Briansk, two civilians, one man and one woman, were killed and five others were injured after a Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacked the city of Klimovo, the local governor, Yegor Kovalchuk, told MAX, the Russian message network.

Ukrainian forces also attacked today, with missiles, the Kamensky factory in Rostov (south), where rocket fuel is manufactured, according to the Ukrainian army.