{"id":729178,"date":"2026-08-06T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729178\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:06:10","slug":"ukraine-hits-two-russian-oil-refineries-in-long-range-attacks-says-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729178\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine hits two Russian oil refineries in &#8216;long-range&#8217; attacks, says Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One killed after Russian attack on ship carrying grain &#8211; Odesa governorpublished at 09:33 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:33 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One person was killed and three were injured in a Russian attack on a ship loaded with Ukrainian wheat in Odesa, the regional governor says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on Telegram, he writes that the ship, sailing under the Guinea-Bissau flag, suffered hull damage and that a fire broke out on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry says it struck two dry cargo ships delivering weapons in the Black Sea last night, near the port of Odesa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s unclear whether the two incidents are connected at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Black Sea is a vital transport route for Ukraine and has been a key target for Russia throughout the conflict, with attacks occurring all along the coastline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Ukraine&#8217;s port administration, July saw 57 Russian attacks on civilian vessels, 22 of them at sea, and a further 67 hits on port infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Map focusing on southern and eastern Ukraine, highlighting Russian military control. Pink shading covers Crimea and stretches across Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. A narrow band of red diagonal stripes marks the active front line, with small orange pockets showing claimed control. The Dnipro River and cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa are labelled for reference.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2b59dec4-088a-4b09-aafb-d1976222b2fd.png.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"1624\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One killed after Russian attack on ship carrying grain &#8211; Odesa governorpublished at 09:33 BST 09:33 BST One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-729178","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\/729178","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=729178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}