Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Syzran oil refinery, Kyiv says

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May 21, 2026 5:05 AM EDT

Emergency specialists carry out search and rescue operations at the site of a partial collapse of an apartment building, following what local authorities called a Ukrainian drone attack in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Syzran, Russia April 22,

May 21 (Reuters) - Ukrainian ‌drones ​struck ​Russia's Rosneft-owned Syzran oil refinery in Samara region overnight, Ukrainian ‌military and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said ⁠on Thursday.

"Another Ukrainian long-range sanction against Russian oil ‌refining – and we ‌are continuing this line of action," Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app.

"This ​time around, it was the Syzran oil refinery – more than 800 ⁠kilometers away from our border."

Zelenskiy posted footage of a ​fire and smoke billowing into the sky.

Two people were killed in ​a drone attack on ‌the town of Syzran in Samara region, the local governor ⁠said, without mentioning whether any infrastructure was damaged in the attack.

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems ⁠Forces said the attack caused a large fire ​at the refinery, whose annual processing capacity ranges from 7 to 8.9 million tons of ‌crude oil.

The commander of the Ukrainian drone forces, Robert Brovdi, ‌said it was the 11th Russian ⁠oil refinery targeted ‌by Ukraine ​during May.

(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Aidan Lewis and Tomasz ‌Janowski)


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