Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months.
, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russia n authorities said Sunday. The campaign has choked Russia n fuel supplies and military deliveries.
According to Western analysts, it has also slowed Moscow’s efforts on the battlefield,Ukrainian sappers clear debris from a downed Russian missile at the site where it fell near a high-rise residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, June 28 2026, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. A sapper examines a fragment of the Russian missile in a residential neighborhood following an air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 28, 2026.
Debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia’s Krasnodar region, east of The falling debris killed one person in Slavyansk and injured another in a nearby village, according to regional authorities. The Slavyansk site is one of southern Russia’s major refineries, processing close to four million tons of crude per year, according to its operator’s website.
Sappers remove a fragment of the Russian missile in a residential neighborhood following an air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 28, 2026. Photos and videos circulating on Russian social media showed a thick cloud of smoke over what users said was the Slavyansk facility. The Associated Press was not immediately able to verify the images.
Zelenskyy also claimed that a second Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, was hit during the nighttime strikes. Local Gov. Mikhail Evraev reported on Sunday morning that some roads between Moscow and the region’s capital, Yaroslavl, were temporarily closed due to “an enemy attack by Ukrainian drones. ” Yaroslavl’s airport also briefly closed overnight, along with others in southern and western Russia, according to the country’s civil aviation agency.
A Ukrainian drone operator installs a Starlink communications system on a “Vampiro” attack drone that is due to carry out a mission at an undisclosed location near the frontline in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on June 26, 2026. Elsewhere, Ukrainian drone strikes killed one person and injured another in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, its acting Gov. Alexander Shuvayev reported on Sunday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 213 Ukrainian drones during the night, including over Russia, occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 142 long-range strike drones and eight missiles overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force. Ukrainian sappers clear debris from a downed Russian missile at the site where it fell near a high-rise residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, June 28 2026, amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
A sapper examines a fragment of the Russian missile in a residential neighborhood following an air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 28, 2026. Sappers remove a fragment of the Russian missile in a residential neighborhood following an air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 28, 2026.
A Ukrainian drone operator installs a Starlink communications system on a"Vampiro" attack drone that is due to carry out a mission at an undisclosed location near the frontline in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on June 26, 2026.
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