Ukraine is pressing its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said Sunday. Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow's revenue for its invasion—now in its fifth year—and make Russians feel the consequences. The campaign has choked Russian fuel supplies and military deliveries, the AP reports. According to Western analysts, it has also slowed Moscow's efforts on the battlefield, adding to the pressure on the Kremlin to come to the negotiating table.
"Our 'long-range sanctions' reached two oil refineries in Russia," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote Sunday on Telegram. "Each means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace." Debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia's Krasnodar region, east of occupied Crimea, according to Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev. Falling debris killed one person in Slavyansk, regional authorities said. Zelensky also claimed that a second Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 435 miles from the Ukrainian border, was hit in the nighttime strikes. Russia said its forces shot down 213 Ukrainian drones overnight, including over Russia, occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 142 long-range drones and eight missiles overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force, which said 125 of the drones and seven missiles were struck down.
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