Ukraine struck Russia's largest oil refinery in Omsk, Siberia — 2,500 kilometers from Ukrainian territory — using upgraded Fire Point FP-1 drones in a world record long-range strike.
Omsk, Russia / Kyiv, Ukraine — July 10, 2026
Ukraine just crossed a threshold that Russia believed was uncrossable. Upgraded long-range drones traveled nearly 2,500 kilometers to strike Russia's largest oil refinery in Omsk, Siberia — shattering every previous record for drone strike range, completing the destruction of all 11 of Russia's largest gasoline refineries, and prompting President Zelensky to declare that no Russian facility is now beyond the reach of Ukrainian weapons.
Ukrainian drones struck Russia's largest oil refinery in the city of Omsk in western Siberia on July 6, in what appears to be one of Kyiv's deepest attacks on Russian territory since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine's military general staff said that the strike caused a fire at the facility, which is situated nearly 2,500 kilometers from Ukrainian territory and close to Russia's border with Kazakhstan.
The attack was confirmed by local Russian officials. Omsk region Governor Vitaly Khotsenko confirmed that "several drones" had broken through layers of Russian air defense and attacked the refinery. NASA satellites recorded multiple fire hotspots at the facility.
The Ukrainian defence technology company Fire Point said its upgraded FP-1 drones carried out the attack and described it as a record for strike drones "not only in Ukraine, but worldwide." Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh said: "Prior to this, the Omsk oil refinery had remained out of reach for Ukrainian drones. The other unreached refinery is the Angarsk Petrochemical Company in Irkutsk Oblast. Both are beyond the Urals. It was counted on to balance out the fuel crisis after the successful campaign by Ukraine's Defense Forces."
According to Dnipro OSINT, the upgraded FP-1 drones struck the refinery's ELOU-AVT-11 crude oil processing unit — hitting its technological columns. The installation has a processing capacity of 8.4 million tonnes of crude oil annually.
The Omsk refinery is not just Russia's largest — it is one of its most strategically critical.
Owned by Gazprom Neft, the Omsk refinery processes more than 22 million tonnes of crude each year — roughly 10% of Russia's total refining capacity. It is the country's largest refinery and supplies more than half of the Siberian Federal District's motor fuel demand. The facility produces gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation kerosene and other petroleum products, including fuel used directly by the Russian military. Critically, the Omsk refinery is also Russia's only producer of catalytic cracking catalysts — key materials used in secondary oil refining at other domestic refineries across the country.
Ukraine's General Staff described the Omsk refinery as "the last of Russia's 11 largest gasoline-producing refineries to be successfully targeted by Ukrainian forces." The completion of that campaign represents one of the most significant strategic achievements in the history of Ukraine's war.
Speaking in his weekly address, Ukrainian President Zelensky confirmed the Omsk strike alongside a sweeping campaign of simultaneous strikes across Russian energy and military infrastructure:
"This week, our warriors achieved important results in imposing long-range sanctions against Russian facilities that fuel this war. Ukrainian drones reached Siberia and struck the oil refinery in Omsk — nearly 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Now, no Russian oil refinery is beyond the reach of Ukrainian weapons. Our responses to Russian strikes also targeted oil facilities in the Saratov, Rostov, Tver, Stavropol, and Krasnodar regions, as well as in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. An airfield in the Voronezh region and a strategic enterprise in Tver were hit. Drones were also used against facilities in the Moscow, Leningrad, and Bryansk regions. Our long-range sanctions plan against Russia is firmly on track."
"Upgraded Fire Point drones have put Siberia within reach of Ukrainian precision. This is a significant blow to Russia's oil economy and an important achievement for the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Zelensky added.
The breadth of the week's Ukrainian drone campaign is extraordinary — covering the full geographic depth of the Russian Federation simultaneously.
Ukraine's military overnight also hit Russia's Ust-Luga and Vysotsk ports, which handle oil exports on the Baltic Sea, as well as targets in the Kaluga and Yaroslavl regions. In Crimea, a strike hit the port of Kerch. Ukraine's HUR military intelligence said it carried out a deep-strike operation hitting the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in the Yaroslavl region — one of Russia's five largest refineries, 700 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. In northwestern Russia's Leningrad region, Ukraine struck the Novatek natural gas producer's Ust-Luga complex on the Baltic Sea and the deployment point of a Russian missile brigade.
The strikes across Saratov, Rostov, Tver, Stavropol, Krasnodar, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Moscow, Leningrad and Bryansk regions, alongside the Omsk strike, represent simultaneous pressure on Russian energy infrastructure across virtually the entire country in a single week.
According to a Financial Times analysis, Ukrainian drones struck Russian oil refineries at least 194 times during the first half of 2026, reaching a record monthly pace in May and contributing to growing fuel supply disruptions across Russia.
The Omsk strike arrives in the context of a Russia already in deep fuel crisis. The Moscow Kapotnya refinery — responsible for 40% of the capital's fuel supply — was shut down until at least early 2027. Crimea has had civilian fuel sales suspended entirely. More than 25 Russian regions are facing fuel shortages. Russian oil refining volumes fell below 4 million barrels per day in June — the lowest level in 21 years. Nearly one-third of Russia's total refining capacity is offline.
The Omsk refinery had been Russia's last major untouched refinery — the one Russia was counting on to compensate for what Ukraine had already destroyed. Now it too is burning.
The strategic implications of the Omsk strike extend far beyond the industrial damage to the refinery itself.
Russia had assumed that Siberia — thousands of kilometers from the front line, deep in the country's geographic heartland — was a safe zone. A place where weapons factories, military logistics and energy infrastructure could operate without fear of Ukrainian attack. That assumption protected not just the Omsk refinery but dozens of other critical industrial facilities that Russia has been using to sustain its war effort out of reach of Ukrainian weapons.
That assumption is now dead. Every Russian facility — regardless of how far it is from Ukraine — must now be considered a potential target. Every industrial site, every weapons factory, every oil terminal and every military airfield across the entire Russian Federation is now within the theoretical reach of Ukraine's evolving drone capability.
"Siberia, too, is now within reach of Ukrainian precision strikes," Zelensky said. It is not a boast. It is a statement of fact that changes the strategic calculus of this war.
DeSanta News will continue to follow Ukraine's long-range energy war campaign and its impact on Russia's military and economic capacity.
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