Ukraine mounted one of its deepest strikes of the summer overnight on 22 August 2026, sending long-range drones more than 1,000 kilometres into Russia’s Samara region. By morning two sites were burning: the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, part of Rosneft, and — for the first time in the war — a logistics hub belonging to Ozon, one of Russia’s largest online retailers.
Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the refinery strike, saying a fire had broken out on the plant’s grounds. The Novokuibyshevsk refinery has a design capacity of about 8.8 million tonnes of crude a year. At the Ozon fulfilment centre in Chapayevsk, a complex of roughly 135,000 square metres, the company said more than 500 workers were evacuated as flames spread across much of the site.
Datos rápidos
| Evento | Long-range drone strikes, night of 22 August 2026 |
| Primary target | Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery (Rosneft), Samara region |
| Refinery capacity | ~8.8 million tonnes of crude per year |
| Second target | Ozon logistics hub, Chapayevsk (~135,000 m²) — first Ozon site struck |
| Russian claim | 457 drones downed overnight |
| Aviation loss | One Su-24M in occupied Crimea (Ukrainian claim) |
A refinery and a warehouse
The refinery sits about 1,000 kilometres from the front line, underlining the reach Ukraine’s domestically built strike drones now have. It is one of a series of Russian refineries hit through the summer as Kyiv presses a campaign against fuel production and, increasingly, the logistics that keep the Russian war economy supplied.
The Ozon strike marked a new category of target. Ukrainian officials framed the country’s large fulfilment centres as part of the logistics network moving dual-use goods, and said the Chapayevsk hit was the first of a planned series.
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The strike on the Ozon centre was confirmed by Ukraine’s General Staff and by Fire Point, the Ukrainian defence-technology firm associated with several long-range drone programmes.
Claims and counterclaims
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air defences shot down 457 Ukrainian drones across several regions overnight. Russian and occupation officials reported civilian casualties away from the industrial sites, including three people killed in the Krasnodar port town of Yeysk. Ukraine separately said its forces destroyed a Su-24M bomber in Russian-occupied Crimea during the same period. The figures come from the two sides and have not been independently verified.
Sources: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Reuters; The Moscow Times; Kyiv Post; Euromaidan Press; Militarnyi; Ukrinform.
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