UPDATE 1-Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Syzran oil refinery, Kyiv says

The commander of the Ukrainian drone forces, ⁠Robert Brovdi, said ⁠it was the 11th Russian oil refinery targeted by Ukraine during May.

Ukrainian ​drones struck Russia's Rosneft-owned ‌Syzran oil ​refinery in Samara region overnight, Ukrainian military and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ‌said on Thursday.

"Another Ukrainian long-range sanction against Russian oil refining – and we are continuing this line of action," Zelenskiy said ‌on the Telegram messaging app. "This time around, ‌it was the Syzran oil refinery – more than 800 kilometers away from our border."

Zelenskiy posted footage of a fire and ⁠smoke ​billowing into the ⁠sky. Two people were killed in a drone attack on ⁠the town of Syzran in Samara region, the local governor ​said, without mentioning whether any infrastructure was damaged in ⁠the attack.

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said the attack caused ⁠a large ​fire at the refinery, whose annual processing capacity ranges from 7 to 8.9 million tons ⁠of crude oil. The commander of the Ukrainian drone forces, ⁠Robert Brovdi, said ⁠it was the 11th Russian oil refinery targeted by Ukraine during May.