Governor Dmitry Makhonin said drones struck an industrial enterprise, damaging two buildings, while eyewitness footage indicated the refinery was the target; no casualties were reported.
The strike aimed to disrupt oil pumping and refining and follows an April 30 drone attack on the same facility, part of Kyiv's broader campaign against Russian energy infrastructure.
Are Ukraine's refinery strikes crippling Russia's war economy, or is Moscow simply absorbing the damage?
With drones striking deep in Russia, is the Kremlin's narrative of a distant war finally collapsing at home?
Has the conflict become a 'compute war' where AI and data supremacy are now the decisive factors?