Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Ukraine attacked a major fuel facility in western Russia overnight as part of a “massive” drone attack over the border, a Russian official has said, targeting the same site Kyiv said supplies the Russian military for the second time in little over a week.Ukraine launched a “massive” drone attack on the Oryol region, north of the Kursk region where Moscow has spent months trying to peel back Ukraine’s grip on Russian soil, Oryol regional governor Andrey Klychkov said in a post to messaging app Telegram.Early on Sunday, Klychkov said air defense and electronic warfare systems had downed 20 drones targeting an unspecified number of “fuel and energy infrastructure facilities” in the region. A fire broke out at the fuel site in Stalnoy Kon, a village just northeast of the city of Oryol, the governor said.Footage published by Russian independent outlet Astra appeared to show an orange explosion, attributed to the Oryol site. This could not be independently verified, but a Ukrainian official with the country’s security and defense council shared the clip, describing it as footage from Oryol.
A screengrab from a video shared online, purporting to show a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian oil facility in the country’s Rostov region. The regional governor, Andrey Klychkov, said the Oryol region was “once…
A screengrab from a video shared online, purporting to show a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian oil facility in the country’s Rostov region. The regional governor, Andrey Klychkov, said the Oryol region was “once again subjected to a massive enemy UAV attack.”
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There were no casualties or “significant damage,” the Oryol governor said.Ukraine’s military said on December 14 that it had struck the Stalnoy Kon oil terminal, causing a “powerful fire.” The site provides the Russian military with petroleum products, Kyiv’s General Staff said. Ukraine is also thought to have attacked the site in mid-November.Kyiv has doggedly targeted Russia’s oil and energy sites as Moscow has launched extensive and often damaging strikes on Ukraine’s own energy infrastructure.Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said in his evening address on Saturday that Kyiv “will definitely continue to strike Russian military targets—with drones and missiles, increasingly with Ukrainian-made ones, specifically targeting military bases and Russian military infrastructure.”Early on Saturday, drones targeted the central Russian Tartarstan region, more than 600 miles from the Ukrainian border. Residential buildings were damaged in the city of Kazan, local officials said.In the early hours of Thursday morning, Ukraine attacked the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov region, according to the local governor.Russia’s Defense Ministry said separately on Sunday that it had intercepted 20 drones over Oryol overnight, eight drones over the Rostov and Bryansk regions, plus five drones over the Kursk region and another uncrewed aerial vehicle over Krasnodar.Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday that Russia had fired more than 100 attack drones in the past 24 hours, including those launched from the Rostov air base of Millerovo and the Oryol region.Yuriy Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov region, said on Sunday that air defenses had intercepted Ukrainian drones near the port city of Taganrog and Novocherkassk to the east, and a missile close to Millerovo.
