Key facts
- Ukrainian drone strikes targeted energy infrastructure across Russia, including in Oryol, Yaroslavl, Krasnodar, and Volgograd regions.
- One person was killed and nine were injured in a drone strike on a residential building in Oryol.
- Fires were ignited at fuel storage facilities in Yaroslavl and a sea terminal in Temryuk.
- Ukraine's military and SBU security service confirmed the attacks on multiple oil and gas targets.
- President Zelenskyy stated the strikes aimed to disrupt Russia's war funding.
- British forces detained a tanker suspected of violating Russian oil sanctions.
Ukraine conducted drone attacks across Russia, targeting energy infrastructure and resulting in casualties and fires. In Oryol, a drone strike on a residential building killed one person and injured nine, according to regional Governor Andrei Klychkov. Simultaneously, fuel storage facilities in Yaroslavl and a sea terminal in Temryuk, Krasnodar region, caught fire. Ukraine's military and SBU security service confirmed the attacks on multiple oil and gas targets, including facilities in the Krasnodar and Volgograd regions. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated these strikes were aimed at Russia's energy sector, which funds its invasion. In a separate incident, British forces detained a tanker in the English Channel suspected of violating international sanctions by shipping Russian oil, an action Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a blow to those fueling the conflict.