{"id":24988,"date":"2026-08-06T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/24988\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:02:19","slug":"ukraine-strikes-russian-oil-refineries-in-long-range-attacks-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/24988\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine strikes Russian oil refineries in \u2018long range\u2019 attacks \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s<\/a> president Volodymyr Zelenskiy<\/a> says the country\u2019s military has hit two Russian<\/a> oil refineries in \u201clong-range\u201d attacks.<\/p>\n

In a social media post, Zelenskiy said Ukraine\u2019s defence forces struck a refinery in Yaroslavl (240km northeast of Moscow) and the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan (1,200km east of Moscow).<\/p>\n

The \u200cregional \u200bgovernor for the Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Evraev, called it the \u201clargest ever attack by enemy drones\u201d, saying 93 drones had been destroyed but oil storage tanks were hit by falling debris.<\/p>\n

He said \u200bin a \u200cstatement on \u200bTelegram that emergency \u2060services were \u2060working \u200bto extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n

Footage shared on social media showed large plumes of black smoke rising from the direction of the refinery on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Zelenskiy said the attacks were hitting \u201cRussia\u2019s oil revenues, which it uses to finance the war and the killing of Ukrainians.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cRussia must choose peace,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on \u200cRussian oil refineries in \u2060recent months, causing fuel shortages which the authorities have stabilised in many parts of Russia though government officials say \u200cproblems remain in some areas.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian president said its forces also struck two military patrol boats and vessels from Russia\u2019s shadow fleet in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

As Ukraine launched more than 600 drones at Russia overnight, attacks continued in the other direction.<\/p>\n

At least six people were killed and 36 injured in another round of Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine, targeting the eastern city of Balakliia and the northern region of Sumy. <\/p>\n

\"AA residential building is damaged following a Russian air attack in Sumy. Photograph: Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP <\/p>\n

Separately, German prosecutors have \u200cdetained a 33-year-old Ukrainian \u200bnational suspected of gathering information on the \u200bpremises of \u2060a defence company \u200cin \u200csouthern Germany \u200bfor sabotage purposes, \u2060they \u200bsaid on \u200bThursday.<\/p>\n

The man, \u200cwho was detained \u200bon Sunday, \u2060is \u2060suspected of \u200bworking as a low-level agent on behalf of a \u200cforeign spy \u2060agency, they added, without naming \u200cwhich country. <\/p>\n

Nato, meanwhile, said it working to get Ukraine the air defences it \u201curgently needs\u201d, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an attack on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Zelenskiy warned that Moscow was seeking to significantly boost missile \u2060production aheadin advance ofer.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on winter resilience, the Ukrainian president did not rule out the idea that stalling missile supplies from western allies were \u201caimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more willing to compromise\u201d in peace talks with Russia.<\/p>\n

\"UkrainianUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Photograph: AP <\/p>\n

After meeting Nato\u2019s Mark Rutte, Zelenskiy said: \u201cIt is important to cut through all red tape and make the necessary political decisions. Literally every day, people\u2019s lives here in Ukraine depend on the resolve of our partners in Europe and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles<\/a> in an overnight attack on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people. Preliminary data from the Ukrainian air force showed its defences shot down 98 of the 115 drones fired by Russia overnight, but none of the ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Zelenskiy said that in the first half of 2026, supplies of air defence missiles from Ukraine\u2019s allies had fallen to a third of their 2025 level \u2013 Reuters\/Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says the country\u2019s military has hit two Russian oil refineries in \u201clong-range\u201d attacks. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8853,8854,8855,4885,7704,3426,26,8856],"class_list":["post-24988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-irish","tag-martin","tag-micheal","tag-pa2026","tag-taoiseach","tag-to","tag-ukraine","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}