Overview
- Ukraine’s Security Service said long-range drones hit a Transneft pumping station near Perm on Wednesday more than 1,500 kilometers from Ukraine, igniting storage tanks.
- The Perm fire followed Tuesday’s third attack in two weeks on Rosneft’s Tuapse refinery on the Black Sea, which prompted local evacuations and fresh pollution warnings.
- Russia said air defenses downed 98 Ukrainian drones overnight across several regions and Crimea, and the Perm governor reported a blaze at an industrial site with staff evacuated and no injuries.
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported shooting down 154 of 171 Russian attack drones overnight, while regional officials said strikes killed at least five people and wrecked a district hospital’s emergency room in Odesa Oblast.
- Kyiv also reported hits on air defenses and depots in occupied Crimea, two helicopters in Russia’s Voronezh region, and a sanctioned tanker near Tuapse, as analysts say refinery strikes disrupt operations without yet cutting Russia’s overall oil revenues.