Ukraine hit two Russian oil refineries and three missile-related plants overnight on Sept. 25, the General Staff said.
The farthest target was the Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery in Perm, roughly 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) from the Ukrainian border. It handles about 13 million metric tons of crude a year. The General Staff said it helps supply Russian forces with fuel and lubricants.
The second refinery sits in Novoshakhtinsk, in Rostov Oblast, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the Ukrainian-controlled ground the attack was launched from. A fire was reported there. Its annual capacity is around 7.5 million metric tons, and the General Staff described it as a major supplier of petroleum products in southern Russia that also feeds the armed forces. Ukrainian forces also hit 64L6 Gamma-S1 and 39N6 Kasta-2E2 radar stations in the same area.
Missile plants on the list
About 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the border, in Ulyanovsk, the target was the Iskra plant. It belongs to the Almaz-Antey aerospace and defense concern. According to the General Staff, it makes semiconductor devices, electronic equipment, measuring instruments and communications systems, and it takes part in building Kh-59M2/M2A guided aerial missiles and the 72V6 Pantsir-S air defense gun-missile system.
Two more sites were named: the Efremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in Tula Oblast, and Voronezhsintezkauchuk in Voronezh Oblast. The General Staff said both produce solid rocket propellant, including for Iskander ballistic missiles.
The Kyiv Independent said it could not immediately verify the details.
Earlier strikes that week
This was not the first night of the week. Overnight on Sept. 24, Ukrainian drones allegedly went after oil depots in Rostov Oblast and Krasnodar Krai, local authorities said. On Sept. 23, drones hit an area near an oil refinery in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, according to the Russian independent outlet Astra, which cited local residents. Ufa is around 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) from the border.
Russia kept up its own attacks. Ballistic missiles struck Kyiv overnight on Sept. 24, killing two people and injuring 8 others. The blasts damaged a maternity hospital and residential buildings.
