Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementOn Thursday, Ukrainian drones struck the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil refinery and petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in central Russia. The same day, Ukraine’s special forces said they hit one of the country’s largest refineries in Volgograd in southern Russia, halting work. Then, on Saturday, Ukrainian drones hit Russian refineries in Saratov and Novokuibyshevsk — with both attacks confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry and regional authorities, while local residents reported explosions and fires. That followed strikes on oil refineries near St. Petersburg in Russia’s northwest and Ufa in central Russia the previous weekend. Earlier this month, 19 Russian drones struck the Trypilska thermal power plant outside Kyiv.