Accra: Ukraine has attacked a Russian oil refinery in the southern Urals with drones, the region’s governor confirmed on Friday, after the latest in a series of long-range strikes by Kyiv. ‘An attempt was made by enemy drones to attack an industrial facility in the region,’ Orenburg Governor Yevgeny Solntsev wrote on Telegram. There were no injuries and the technical processes at the company were not disrupted, he added. However, videos on social media showed several drone strikes on the grounds of a refinery in Orsk. The city of more than 200,000 people, located near the border with Kazakhstan, is almost 1,500 kilometres away from the Ukrainian border.

According to Ghana News Agency, earlier, a Ukrainian drone attack targeted a fertilizer plant in Berezniki in the Perm region of the Urals. The attack damaged a residential building, Governor Dmitry Makhonin posted on Telegram. There were no casualties, and production at the plant was only briefly disrupted, Makhonin said. Berezniki is also more than 1,500 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine has been fighting to repel a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022, with Western help and increasingly uses combat drones to hit distant targets in Russia.