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Oil refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia
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Ukraine Claims Heavy Russian Losses and Overnight Strike on Yaroslavl Refinery, Testing Russia’s Rear

Ukraine says its forces inflicted heavy Russian losses and hit the Yaroslavl oil refinery overnight, extending the war deep into Russia’s rear. If confirmed, the claims point to mounting pressure on Russian logistics, air defenses and domestic perceptions that distance from the front no longer guarantees safety.

New claims from Ukraine of a successful strike on Russia’s Yaroslavl oil refinery and heavy Russian battlefield losses in the past day point to a campaign aimed at stretching Moscow’s defenses far beyond the front line. If borne out, the reports suggest Kyiv is combining pressure on Russian troops with targeted attacks on energy infrastructure hundreds of kilometers from Ukrainian territory. In a message posted around 04:03 UTC on 6 August, Ukraine’s defense forces said they had carried out a “modernization” of the Yaroslavl refinery overnight—a formulation widely used in Ukrainian messaging to describe drone and missile attacks on Russian industrial targets. The statement did not provide technical details of…

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