Russia has faced a new reality – Ukrainian drones are capable of striking targets deep in the rear, which it considered protected. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated this during his speech at the 36th NATO summit in Ankara, reports UNN.
"For a long time, Russia believed it had a territorial advantage that no one else possessed — a deep rear, where it could safely keep military production, military equipment, and everything else. Its war depends on the conviction that no one can reach it. But we reached it. Just yesterday, Ukrainian drones breached Russia's defenses and struck a Russian oil refinery in Siberia. And this is not an exception. This is a new reality. And there is not a single major oil refinery left in Russia that has not been hit by Ukraine," Zelenskyy said.
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On July 6, Ukrainian UAVs struck an oil refinery in Omsk, covering a record distance – approximately 2,500 km in a straight line. A hit with subsequent fire was recorded on the territory of the facility.
The chief designer of Fire Point, Denys Shtilerman, said that during the attack on the Omsk Refinery, a new modification of the Ukrainian long-range drone FP-1 was used. This refinery became the most distant facility deep inside the Russian Federation that was struck by drones launched from Ukraine.
CEO of Fire Point, Iryna Terekh, called the strike on the Omsk Refinery historic. According to her, until this day, it remained one of only two enterprises out of the top ten largest oil refineries in Russia that had never been damaged by Ukrainian drones. The other such enterprise remains the Angarsk Petrochemical Company in the Irkutsk region.
"Hopes were placed on it for balancing the fuel crisis after the successful campaign of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. To understand the scale – its capacity is almost twice that of the Moscow Refinery," Terekh noted.
She also drew attention to the fact that the Omsk Refinery is the only enterprise in Russia producing cracking catalysts – a key component on which secondary oil refining depends at other Russian oil refineries.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this is the last of the 11 largest gasoline producers in the Russian Federation that was hit by Ukrainian soldiers. It is the most powerful oil refining enterprise in the Russian Federation (over 21 million tons per year) and specializes in producing a wide range of fuels, oils, and petrochemical products. The plant has one of the highest oil refining depth indicators in the Russian Federation (about 99%). The refinery produces high-octane motor gasolines (AI-92, AI-95, G-Drive 100), Euro-5 diesel fuel, aviation kerosene (grades TS-1 and RT). It is also a manufacturer of benzene, paraxylene, and orthoxylene, specialized products and oils, raw materials for carbon black, motor and industrial oils.
The General Staff emphasizes that the Omsk Refinery was involved in meeting the needs of the Russian occupation army.