Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes on energy infrastructure overnight, targeting refineries and power plants in both countries.
Russia launched 134 drones, including 72 jet-powered Shahed models, at Ukraine, hitting a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv, four electrical substations and a gas facility in Dnipropetrovsk, and another CHP plant in Shostka, according to Ukraine’s Air Force and President Zelenskyy . Strikes also damaged railway infrastructure in Dnipro and Kharkiv, while a drone hit a private house in Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district, injuring five .
Ukraine struck back at Russia’s Ufa oil refining complex in Bashkortostan, setting the Bashneft-Novoil refinery ablaze, according to the OSINT group ASTRA and monitoring channels . The facility, part of a 23.5 million-tonne annual capacity complex, produces Euro-6 gasoline, diesel, and aviation kerosene for Rosneft. Local reports and footage confirmed damage to the ELOU-AVT unit, which processes 7.1 to 7.5 million tonnes of oil yearly and supplies fuels to the Russian military . Authorities in Ufa declared a drone threat and closed the airport as explosions were reported in the industrial zone .
Ukraine also targeted the Kamensky plant in Rostov region, damaging at least four workshops and igniting a warehouse storing solid rocket fuel and explosives for Russian military systems . Russian officials claimed air defenses downed 433 Ukrainian drones over 19 regions, including Bashkortostan, but did not specify how many targeted Ufa .
In Sumy, Russian jet-powered drones and FPV drones hit industrial zones, sparking fires that were later contained, with no reported casualties . Power outages were reported in Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast following the overnight exchanges .
