{"id":16900,"date":"2024-03-13T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/ukraine-hits-oil-refineries-deep-inside-russian-territory-as-kyiv-steps-up-drone-attacks-before-putins-likely-re-election\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:48:08","slug":"ukraine-hits-oil-refineries-deep-inside-russian-territory-as-kyiv-steps-up-drone-attacks-before-putins-likely-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/ukraine-hits-oil-refineries-deep-inside-russian-territory-as-kyiv-steps-up-drone-attacks-before-putins-likely-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine hits oil refineries deep inside Russian territory, as Kyiv steps up drone attacks before Putin\u2019s likely re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The three Russian oil refineries targeted are in\u00a0the cities of Ryazan, about 130 miles southeast of Moscow; Kstovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, nearly 300 miles east of the capital; and\u00a0Kirishi in Russia\u2019s northwest. The trio of facilities are among Russia\u2019s largest refineries, the source said. <\/p>\n

It marked the second consecutive day of Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy sites, and the locations targeted represent a spate of attacks well within Russia\u2019s territory. <\/p>\n

They came after a chaotic day on the Russian side of the Ukrainian border, during which pro-Ukrainian groups of Russian fighters said they launched cross-border attacks and claimed to have gained control of the village of Tyotkino in Russia\u2019s Kursk region. <\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s defense ministry said Wednesday its air defenses destroyed 58 Ukrainian drones overnight, including some that traveled as far as the Leningrad region, which borders Finland, supporting Kyiv\u2019s claims. <\/p>\n

The regional governor in Ryazan, Pavel Malkov,\u00a0said a fire broke out at the facility there but has since been extinguished. He said two people were injured. <\/p>\n

Social media video from the refinery complex, one of Russia\u2019s largest, showed a large plume of smoke billowing from a building in the distance. <\/p>\n

A day earlier, Russian authorities reported\u00a0at least 25 drone attacks, with local officials in the Oryol and Nizhny Novgorod regions reporting hits to fuel and energy facilities. <\/p>\n

No casualties have been reported from either Tuesday or Wednesday\u2019s attacks. <\/p>\n

But an apparent cross-border incursion on Tuesday saw attacks launched in the village of Odnorobovka in Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region, and in the nearby Russian villages of Nekhoteevka and Spodariushino in Belgorod, according to Russian authorities. <\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s\u00a0Belgorod\u00a0Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said 10 civilians were injured and six were hospitalized in the region on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

As well as targeting Russia\u2019s deep oil reserves, Kyiv\u2019s latest strikes may be partially intended to bring home to Russians the impact of the war just as the country prepares for a presidential election. <\/p>\n

The vote is essentially certain to hand Putin a fifth term, extending his rule into the 2030s. Voting will take place over three days from Friday, with the president sailing towards another spell in power in a ballot that is not considered free or fair and in which he faces no genuine competition. <\/p>\n

During a lengthy interview on state television channel Rossiya 1 on Wednesday, Putin said Ukrainian attacks on\u00a0Belgorod\u00a0and Kursk are happening amid Kyiv\u2019s \u201cfailures\u201d on the battlefield. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll this is happening against the backdrop of failures on the line of contact, on the front line. They did not achieve any of the goals they set for themselves last year,\u201d Putin said. \u201cAgainst the backdrop of those failures, they need to show at least something, and, mainly, attention should be focused on the information side of the matter.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

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The three Russian oil refineries targeted are in\u00a0the cities of Ryazan, about 130 miles southeast of Moscow; Kstovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, nearly 300 miles east of the capital; and\u00a0Kirishi in Russia\u2019s northwest. The trio of facilities are among Russia\u2019s largest refineries, the source said. It marked the second consecutive day of Ukrainian attacks <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}