Ukraine Security Service Strikes Three Major Bashneft Refineries 1600km Inside Russia Processing 23 Million Metric Tons Annually

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said its long-range drones struck the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim, Bashneft-Novoil, and Bashneft-UNPZ refineries in Ufa, Bashkortostan, roughly 1,600 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, overnight on August 1 1234. The SBU said the three facilities, part of the Rosneft-controlled Bashneft complex, together process more than 23 million metric tons of crude annually and produce gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene, and lubricants, including supplies used by the Russian military 123. Ukrainian drones also struck three Podlyot-K1 radar stations and one Kasta-2E2 radar system in Russia's Krasnodar Krai 124. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the strikes and their distance from Ukraine's border 123, while Bashkortostan Governor Radiy Khabirov acknowledged drones had targeted Ufa but claimed the attack was repelled, attributing a reported fire at Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim to falling drone debris 2. Independent OSINT analysts at Astra geolocated footage to the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim refinery showing at least two large columns of black smoke rising from the facility, contradicting Khabirov's debris-only account 2. Russia's Defense Ministry separately claimed it downed 274 drones across Russian territory, occupied Crimea, and the Black and Azov Seas overnight 2.