Zelenskyy Reveals Ukrainian Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries: What Happened?

LONDON -- Ukrainian long-range strikes hit two major Russian oil refineries overnight into Thursday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram.

Zelenskyy said that the latest wave of "long-range sanctions" -- a phrase Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials often use to refer to Kyiv's long-range attacks on Russian targets -- hit the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan, more than 800 miles from Ukraine, and the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in the Yaroslavl region, around 435 miles from Ukraine.

"Today, our long-range sanctions once again proved effective in limiting Russia's oil profits, which it uses to finance the war and the killing of Ukrainians," Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram.