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BumRushDaShow

(173,659 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:39 AM 5 hrs ago

Ukrainian strike sets fire to oil refinery in southern Russia

Source: ABC News/AP

June 28, 2026, 6:17 AM


KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said Sunday. Kyiv's campaign of massive long-range strikes has choked Russian fuel supplies and military deliveries, in what authorities call an attempt to bring the Kremlin to the negotiating table.

Debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia's Krasnodar region, east of occupied Crimea, according to Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev. The falling debris killed one person in Slavyansk and injured another in a nearby village, according to regional authorities.

Photos and videos circulating on Russian social media showed a thick cloud of smoke over what users said was the Slavyansk refinery. The Associated Press was not immediately able to verify the images.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine was behind the strike on Slavyansk. He also claimed that a second Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700 kilometers (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was hit during the nighttime strikes. “Tonight, our ‘long-range sanctions’ reached two oil refineries in Russia," Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “Each (strike) means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace."

Read more: https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/ukrainian-strike-sets-fire-oil-refinery-southern-russia-134286603

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Ukrainian strike sets fire to oil refinery in southern Russia (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 5 hrs ago OP
🌻🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦🌻 littlemissmartypants 4 hrs ago #1
Excellent strike against terrorism financing ck4829 4 hrs ago #2
The news out of Ukraine has been incredible, PatSeg 4 hrs ago #3
Like the witch skywriting in Wizard of Oz Bayard 4 hrs ago #4
Excellence. republianmushroom 3 hrs ago #5
These reportings may just be selective reports swong19104 2 hrs ago #6
This is doing real damage to Russia. ananda 21 min ago #7

littlemissmartypants

(35,496 posts)
1. 🌻🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦🌻
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:54 AM
4 hrs ago

🌻🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦🌻 Heroyam Slava! 🌻🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦🌻

PatSeg

(54,071 posts)
3. The news out of Ukraine has been incredible,
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 11:13 AM
4 hrs ago

but it feels like the MSM has barely mentioned it. Of course for us in the U.S., it all Trump, all the time.

swong19104

(679 posts)
6. These reportings may just be selective reports
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 01:25 PM
2 hrs ago

But if these are just the targets that Ukraine is going for, I admire the Ukrainian military for their resistance to hitting civilians in their cities and homes and only* hit key infrastructure that minimize killing civilians, but does cause a lot of economic hardship. Living citizens turn against their leaders who put them in such tight squeeze. Dead citizens make the living want to seek revenge.

*when I type “only” my autocomplete always offer up “OnlyFans” as an option, despite me never ever typed that or ever visiting the site. (“Sure, sure swong!”)

ananda

(35,832 posts)
7. This is doing real damage to Russia.
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 03:19 PM
21 min ago

PBS reports:

The campaign has choked Russian fuel supplies and military deliveries. According to Western analysts, it has also slowed Moscow's efforts on the battlefield, heaping pressure on the Kremlin to come to the negotiating table.

"Our 'long-range sanctions' reached two oil refineries in Russia," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday. "Each (strike) means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace."

Debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia's Krasnodar region, east of occupied Crimea, according to Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev. The falling debris killed one person in Slavyansk and wounded another in a nearby village, local authorities said.
The Slavyansk site is one of southern Russia's major refineries, processing close to 4 million tons of crude per year, according to its operator's website. It is also a key source of petroleum products intended for export through Russia's Black Sea ports, including fuel oil, naphtha and marine fuel.

Zelenskyy also claimed that a second Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700 kilometers (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was hit during the nighttime strikes.

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