{"id":1039516,"date":"2026-06-20T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1039516\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:45:19","slug":"zelensky-says-ukraine-drones-hit-oil-refinery-in-russias-tyumen-now-have-3000km-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1039516\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says Ukraine drones hit oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Tyumen, now have 3,000km range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u2060Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said \u2060on Saturday that Ukrainian drones had struck an oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Tyumen Region in western Siberia, more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He also said Ukraine had \u200cdeveloped new long-range drones capable of operating over more than 3,000 km.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking in his nightly video address, Zelensky offered thanks to the Ukrainian military\u2019s special operations which \u201chave reached Tyumen Region in Russia, including an oil refining facility. More than 2,000 km from \u2060our state border. This is effective work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ukraine\u2019s military has been engaged for \u200cmonths in a campaign of medium- and long-range strikes on Russian targets, focusing mainly on the oil industry, \u200cto hinder Moscow\u2019s capability in funding the war.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smoke billows behind an Orthodox church following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow on Thursday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/004e4692-6c9e-4ee3-bb62-804953dd98ae_1c168fcf.jpg\" title=\"Smoke billows behind an Orthodox church following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow on Thursday. Photo: EPA\"\/>Smoke billows behind an Orthodox church following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow on Thursday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The governor of \u2060Tyumen Region, \u2060Alexander Moor, earlier said that Russian air defences repelled a drone attack on the \u200coil refinery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2060Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said \u2060on Saturday that Ukrainian drones had struck an oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Tyumen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1039517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[286427,2301,332,34879,74571,286426,286425,657,156851,182932,21151],"class_list":["post-1039516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-alexander-moor","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-siberia","tag-tyumen","tag-tyumen-region","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-zelensky"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116784394892852124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}