On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Ukrainian forces carried out a series of attacks by drones and missiles on targets deep in Russian territory, he announced. Kyiv Independent.
The main targets of the attack were the Kujbyshev oil refinery in Samara and the VNIIR-Progress research and production plant in Cheboksary. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the facility supplies the Russian military industry with parts for Orion drones and Iskander missile systems.
A drone attack on the Kuybyshev refinery in Samara, about 800 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border, caused a fire in the facility. Governor of Samara region Vyacheslav Fedorišchev confirmed that an air alert had been declared earlier that night due to the threat of a missile strike.
In Cheboksary, in the Republic of Chuvashia, about 1,000 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, Ukrainian missiles hit the production complex of the VNIIR-Progress company. That company is under sanctions from Kiev and Western allies, including Washington and the European Union.
According to the same sources, the target of the attack was the Vtorovo oil pumping station in the Vladimir Region, where a fire also broke out. Official Kyiv and independent media have not yet confirmed the details of these attacks.
The first footage of the Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile in flight over Russia appeared on social networks. The specific video shows a rocket flying towards the complex of the VNIIR-Progress company, located about 1,150 kilometers from the border.
It is a six-ton missile produced by the defense company Fire Point, and the Ukrainian forces use it rarely, only on a few occasions since last summer, with slightly more frequent use since November 2025. A domestically produced projectile, which is the president Volodymyr Zelensky previously called the most successful Ukrainian missile, it is equipped with a 1,150-kilogram warhead and has a declared range of 3,000 kilometers.
These strikes are part of a regular Ukrainian campaign against Russia’s military and energy infrastructure to weaken Russian logistics, he announced Kyiv Independent.
The Vtorovo gas station was already the target of a successful drone attack on May 24, which the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed at the time. A similar long-range attack was carried out on June 3, when the president Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the hit to the oil terminal in St. Petersburg during the International Economic Forum there.
At the same time, attacks on logistics routes towards occupied Crimea were intensified.
Traffic on the key Čonhar bridge was disrupted following a drone attack on the night of June 7, which was confirmed by both sides. In the same period, Ukrainian forces hit the Semikolodyansk oil depot in Crimea and established air surveillance over part of the Russian land supply route to that peninsula.
