A major fire has broken out at Russia’s Tyumen oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone struck it. The Turkish news agency Anadolu confirmed the news in a report on Saturday, July 25.
The governor of the Tyumen region, Alexander Moor, said emergency workers had been sent to the scene and rescue work was under way, and that he was personally supervising the whole situation. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky later confirmed the strike on the refinery and said the attacks had been carried out overnight at several other places in Russia.
In a message on the US social-media platform X (formerly Twitter), Zelensky claimed the strikes had damaged a factory in Russia’s Kirov region engaged in supplying Russian weapons components. A military logistics centre in Yekaterinburg and a fuel depot in Rostov-on-Don were also hit, he said.
Zelensky further claimed they had achieved “major success” in long-range strikes on the Caspian Sea, damaging several ships used to transport military goods with Iran and one Russian warship.
In 2026 so far, Ukrainian drones have struck 24 of Russia’s total of 34 refineries. According to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, about one-third of Russia’s refineries had been put out of action by the middle of June.
With the intensity of attacks on Russian oil refineries rising, Moscow is being forced from time to time to impose various restrictions to keep its own fuel market stable. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that these Ukrainian attacks are the main cause of their fuel crisis. At the same time, however, he has claimed that the situation is still under their control.
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