"Siberia is also within reach of Ukrainian precision" - President on the FP-1 drone strike on the Omsk refinery

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine's long-range sanctions plan is being implemented accurately and effectively. Today's strike by FP-1 drones on the Omsk refinery has become a tangible loss for the Russian economy. The Head of State stated this in his evening address, reports UNN.

We continue to respond quite justly to Russia's strikes – we are implementing the long-range sanctions plan accurately and effectively, which everyone in the world notes. Today, our Ukrainian long-range sanctions reached the refinery in Omsk – almost 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine – with upgraded Fire Point drones. Now Siberia is also within reach of Ukrainian precision. A tangible loss for the Russian oil economy and an important result for the Armed Forces of Ukraine 

The President also recalled that there were also strikes on the refinery in Yaroslavl and on other oil facilities on Russian territory and on the territory occupied by Russians.

Medium-range sanctions are also working. The Russians will feel even more that this war must be ended. Peace is needed, and Putin must accept that peace is a blessing, not a catastrophe, as he thinks 

Let us recall 

Today, July 6, Ukrainian UAVs struck the oil refinery in Omsk. A hit followed by a fire was recorded on the territory of the enterprise. 

Co-owner and 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. On his X page, he laconically wrote: "The Omsk Refinery welcomes the new FP1!". 

This refinery became the most distant target deep within the Russian Federation 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 this 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 the Russian Federation to be struck 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 fuel, lubricants, 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), 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 lubricants, raw materials for carbon black, motor and industrial oils.

The General Staff emphasizes – the Omsk Refinery was involved in meeting the needs of the Russian occupation army.