KYIV, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on
Saturday that it had struck oil facilities inside Russia,
including a major refinery as well as a military airfield for
drones and an electronics factory.
In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems
Forces said they had hit the oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180
km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, causing a fire on its
premises.
Also hit, the USF said, was the Annanefteprodukt oil storage
facility in the Voronezh region that borders on northeastern
Ukraine.
The statement did not specify how the facilities were hit,
but the USF specialises in drone warfare, including long-range
strikes.
There was no immediate comment from Russia on the reported
attacks on its infrastructure sites.
Separately, Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency said its
drones had hit Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield,
which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at
targets in Ukraine.
The SBU said it also hit a factory in Penza that it said
supplies Russia's military-industrial complex with electronics.
At the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022,
Ukraine had no response to Moscow's vast long-range strike
capacity but it has since built up a fleet of long-range
kamikaze drones able to carry explosive warheads for many
hundreds of kilometres (miles).
Russia's defence ministry said in its daily report that its
defence units had downed a total of 338 Ukrainian drones
overnight. Its reports do not say how many Ukrainian drones were
launched at any given time.
For its part, Ukraine's air force said it had downed 45 of
53 Russian drones launched towards its territory overnight.
On Ukraine's eastern battlefront, Russia's defence ministry
said, Russian forces had captured the village of
Oleksandro-Kalynove in the Donetsk region on Saturday.
Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield report.
Russian forces now control almost 20% of Ukraine in its east
and south after three-and-a-half years of grinding war.