Ukraine Drones Strike Samara Oil Refinery, E-Commerce Warehouse

Russia and Ukraine continued to trade strikes on infrastructure facilities overnight, including Ukrainian drone barrages that hit an oil refinery and a warehouse of a major e-commerce company deep within Russia.

Ukrainian drone strikes targeted the Samara region on Aug. 22, causing a fire at the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, a Rosneft subsidiary with an 8.8-million-ton annual capacity. Reports also indicate a strike on a 75,000-square-meter fulfillment center operated by Ozon, one of Russia’s largest e-commerce platforms. The