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Ukraine strikes Russia's last major oil refinery

Ukraine strikes Russia's last major oil refinery

Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Omsk refinery, the country's largest ​and located deep in Siberia, in what would be ‌one of the longest-ranged Ukrainian strikes since the beginning of the war, Kyiv's military said on Monday, with local Russian authorities also confirming a strike, Reuters reports.

In ​a statement, Ukraine's General Staff said that the strike ​had caused a fire at the Omsk refinery, which ⁠is located around 2,700 km (1,700 miles) from Ukrainian-held territory ​and close to Russia's border with Kazakhstan.

In a post on Telegram, ​Omsk region governor Vitaly Khotsenko did not specify a target, but said that several Ukrainian drones had reached "Omsk's northern industrial hub", where the refinery ​is located.

He said that the full impact of the attack ​was being assessed and emergency services were dealing with the aftermath.

Sources told Reuters ‌that ⁠the Gazpromneft-owned (SIBN.MM), opens new tabOmsk refinery processed around 23 million metric tons, or 460,000 barrels, of oil daily last year.

Ukraine has been escalating a campaign of strikes against Russian oil refineries, causing acute fuel ​shortages across the ​country's 11 ⁠time zones.

Aside from Omsk, Ukraine's military overnight hit Russia's Ust-Luga and Vysotsk ports, which handle oil exports ​on the Baltic Sea, as well as targets ​in the ⁠Kaluga and Yaroslavl regions, local governors said.

In Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, one woman was killed in a ⁠strike ​on the port of Kerch, Russian-installed authorities ​said. Sevastopol, the peninsula's largest city, suffered a blackout, they said.

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