{"id":650032,"date":"2026-06-21T04:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650032\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:47:13","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-drones-strike-russias-tyumen-oil-refinery-2000km-away-says-zelenskyy-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650032\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Drones strike Russia\u2019s Tyumen oil refinery 2,000km away, says Zelenskyy | World news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed that Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Tyumen region \u2060in western Siberia, \u2060more \u200bthan 2,000 km (1,200 miles) from Ukraine. He said Ukrainian company Fire Point had developed new long-range drones capable of \u2060travelling more than 3,000km and they had been \u201csuccessfully deployed\u201d. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy thanked the Ukrainian \u2060military for special operations that \u201chave reached Tyumen Region in Russia, including \u200ban oil refining facility. More \u200cthan 2,000km from \u200cour state border. This is effective work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Unverified videos posted online showed smoke and flame rising over what was said to be the burning Tyumen refinery, also known as the Antipinsky refinery. The Tyumen governor, Alexander Moor, claimed emergency services were working at the site of \u201cfallen [drone] debris\u201d \u2013 a phrasing often used by Russian officials to play down successful Ukrainian attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Ukraine\u2019s forces struck an oil terminal at Kerch in occupied Crimea over Saturday night, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-reportedly-strikes-oil-terminal-in-occupied-crimea\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian media<\/a> and online accounts monitoring the war. Nasa satellite monitoring showed a fire at the Kerch seaport where the terminal is located. In what appeared to be a broader wave of strikes against Russian-held targets in Crimea, an electrical substation at Bilohorsk was reportedly on fire, and there were other attacks at Yevpatoria and the main city of Sevastopol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Russian \u2060forces struck the \u2060south-eastern Ukrainian \u2060city of \u200bZaporizhzhia with glide \u2060bombs on Saturday, killing five \u2060people \u200band \u200cinjuring 10, said Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor. Fedorov said there \u200chad been nine strikes \u200bin the city. He \u2060said residents could \u200bbe \u200btrapped \u200bin the \u200brubble \u200cof \u200bdamaged buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Near the Russian border, a bomb attack killed \u200bone person on the \u200boutskirts of the city of \u200bSumy, local officials said. In the southern Kherson region, the regional \u200bgovernor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said \u200cone person had \u200bdied in \u200ba drone attack on a village north of the region\u2019s main city, also called Kherson. Three children were injured when the central city of Poltava came under Russian shelling, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Russian bombs struck an apartment building on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine including a six-year-old child, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed that Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Tyumen region \u2060in western Siberia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-650032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}