Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated that Ukraine no longer requires permission to carry out long-range strikes against legitimate military targets on the territory of Russia, reports UNN.
Ukraine no longer requires permission from third parties to carry out long-range strikes against legitimate military targets on the territory of Russia. We will continue asymmetric operations with our own weapons, as this is our right to self-defense, guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine added that "the era of disarmament in the world has ended, when it comes to conventional weapons."
Reminder
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 was recorded on the territory of the enterprise, followed by a fire.
Denis Shtilerman, chief designer of Fire Point, said that a new modification of the Ukrainian long-range drone FP-1 was used during the attack on the Omsk refinery. This refinery became the farthest target deep within Russia to be hit by drones launched from Ukraine.
Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh called the strike on the Omsk refinery historic. According to her, until that day, it remained one of only two enterprises among the 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 Defense Forces of Ukraine. To grasp 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 that produces cracking catalysts – a key component on which secondary oil refining at other Russian refineries depends.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this is the last of the 11 largest gasoline producers in Russia to be hit by Ukrainian soldiers. It is the most powerful oil refining enterprise in Russia (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 Russia (about 99%). The refinery produces high-octane automotive gasolines (AI-92, AI-95, G-Drive 100), diesel fuel of the "Euro-5" class, aviation kerosene (grades TS-1 and RT). It is also a producer 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.