Ukraine's upgraded FP-1 drones hit Russia's largest refinery in the war's deepest strike

Fire Point's new FP-1 variant flew roughly 3,000 kilometers to Omsk, closing out the last of Russia's 11 biggest gasoline producers still untouched.

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck the Omsk refinery on July 6, the first hit on Russia's largest oil refinery and the deepest strike of the full-scale war, Kyiv Post reported. The SSO said its drones flew roughly 3,000 kilometers to reach the Gazprom Neft plant in western Siberia and damaged the ELOU-AVT-11 primary crude unit, the installation the rest of the plant cannot run without.

Ukraine's General Staff put that unit's design capacity at 8.4 million tons of crude a year and called the refinery, which processes more than 21 million tons annually, the last of Russia's 11 largest gasoline producers to be struck. Omsk region governor Vitaly Khotsenko confirmed drones broke through to the city's northern industrial zone, with emergency services on site and no casualties reported. NASA fire-monitoring satellites recorded hotspots at the facility Monday evening, per The Moscow Times.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy credited "upgraded Fire Point drones" with covering "almost 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine," telling his evening audience that Siberia now sits within reach of Ukrainian precision, UNN wrote. Denys Shtilierman, Fire Point's chief designer, said on X that a new FP-1 variant flew the mission. The jet-launched version can cover about 3,400 kilometers, up from the original 1,600, Business Insider noted, and the company described the flight as a range record for strike drones worldwide.

Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh said Omsk had been one of only two of Russia's ten biggest refineries never damaged by Ukrainian drones. The plant is also Russia's sole producer of cracking catalysts, the chemistry that secondary refining at other Russian facilities depends on, she added.

Ukrainian drones hit Russian refineries at least 194 times in the first half of 2026, a Financial Times count cited by United24 Media found. Russian gasoline output is down about 25 percent year on year, shortages have spread to all but two regions, and officials are weighing fuel imports from Belarus, Kazakhstan and India, The Guardian reported.

Vladimir Putin has promised to accelerate production of air defense systems to cover the refineries, according to Business Insider. One name remains on Terekh's list: Angarsk, in Irkutsk region, is now the only top-ten Russian refinery never hit. Omsk held that status until Monday.