Smoke billows from the St. Petersburg Oil Refinery in northwest Russia after Ukrainian drone attacks, June 3, 2026
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Friday’s Coverage: More “Long-Range Sanctions” With Strikes On Russia’s Oil Refineries
UPDATE 0757 GMT:
Ten civilians have been injured by a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv.
The Russian attacks just before 4 a.m. Damage is reported in multiple districts of the capital, with three struck by missiles. The injured include an 11-year-old boy.
Russia launched 12 missiles and 121 drones overnight. Air defenses shot down two guided missiles and 111 drones.
On Friday, one person was killed and 29 injured, including a child, by Russian airstrikes on Zaporizhzhia city in southeast Ukraine.
The Russians attacked with guided aerial bombs, damaging residential and non-residential buildings.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the creation of a command to oversee Ukraine’s long-range strikes inside Russia and Russian-occupied territory.
In his nightly address to the nation, Zelensky said the “command for long-range, effectively global, impact on Russia…. must concentrate 100% of the available resources on degrading Russia’s warfighting potential even more”.
He noted the deepening of Russia’s fuel crisis because of Kyiv’s strikes this year: “Putin’s own circle….understand what is happening and that peace has no alternative. This sentiment in Russia will continue to grow.”
Russia’s gasoline crisis is deepening – quite justly – in response to Putin’s reluctance to end this war. We have put forward proposals on how to bring peace closer, and we have support not only among our partners around the world, but also within Putin’s own circle. They… pic.twitter.com/vVwIdfRMS4
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 10, 2026
Ukraine has struck all but one of Russia’s major refineries this year, hitting most of them multiple times.
On Monday, Kyiv struck the largest Russian refinery in Omsk, more than 2,500 km (1,553 miles) from the border, for the first time.
Targets on Friday included the Ilsky Oil Refinery, among the largest in southern Russia; oil infrastructure in the Rostov region in southwest Russia; the oil terminal in the port city of Taganrog on the Sea of Azov; and an oil depot in the nearby town of Azov.
Russian authorities have imposed rationing in more than 50 regions. Crimea, seized from Ukraine in 2014, has banned all fuel sales except to the military and essential services.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin banned the export of diesel. It halted export of gasoline in late June.
Ukraine Strikes More Vessels of Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”
Ukraine inflicted more damage on the Russian “shadow fleet” on Friday, further threatening fuel supplies to Crimea.
Drones struck 10 tankers, one dry cargo ship, one ferry, and one sea tug on Friday, said Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine’s unmanned systems.
Ukraine has reportedly hit 48 Russian vessels since the start of the week.
Brovdi said Ukrainian forces also struck five electrical substations in occupied Crimea.
Amid the attacks, Russia has temporarily stopped shipping through the Don-Azov Channel, confirm three grain export industry sources.
Up to one-quarter of Russia’s wheat exports pass through the waterway that links the Don River with the Sea of Azov.
Russia’s border guards reportedly notified shipping companies that all requests for passage through the Kerch Strait, which links the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, would not be accepted from 6:10 p.m. on Friday.
