Ukraine just set the world record for the longest one-way drone strike

#Kanal13​ #likekanal13​ #subscribekanal13 #warinukraine https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13a... - SUBSCRIBE TO US! Ukraine relies heavily on drones for deep strike—hitting Russian factories that produce components for the military-industrial complex, along with military plants, airfields, and ammunition depots. An industry that barely existed three years ago has turned Ukraine into one of the world's leaders in long-range strike drones. The latest proof: the strike that now stands as the longest recorded one-way drone strike of the war, United24media says. On July 6, Ukrainian forces struck the Omsk refinery, Russia's largest, which sits roughly 2,500 km from the Ukrainian border. Ukrainian drones had never flown that far before. And since the drone wasn't launched from the border itself, and didn't fly a straight line to the target, it likely covered more than 3,000 km in the air—an absolute world record, one that ended with a direct hit on Russia's largest refinery in the middle of a nationwide fuel crisis. It's also a clean illustration of the difference between the two countries' approaches to this war: while Russia fires ballistic missiles at residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine uses technology to strip Russia of the resources it needs to keep fighting. The Omsk refinery is Russia's most powerful, with a processing capacity of around 22 million tons of crude oil per year—roughly 460,000 barrels per day. Ukrainian drones hit the primary distillation unit ELOU-AVT-11, which alone accounts for 8.4 million tons of annual throughput. Reports suggest anywhere from two to seven drones reached the target, triggering a large fire. Over the past several months, Ukraine has systematically struck Russia’s largest oil refineries, steadily eroding the country’s fuel-processing capacity. Before this attack, Omsk—Russia’s largest refinery—was one of the few major facilities to remain untouched. With the strike on Omsk, only one of Russia’s ten largest refineries—Angarsk, in Siberia—remains unhit. Both Omsk and Angarsk are beyond the Urals. The strike won't shut the refinery down outright, but it will chip away at its processing capacity by a meaningful percentage—and at a moment when Russia is already short on gasoline, even a partial cut matters. It's also worth remembering that Ukraine has already hit all ten of Russia's largest refineries, some of them more than once. That means it's no longer a single plant waiting for repairs—it's effectively all of them at once, which piles additional pressure on repair crews and on the supply of replacement parts that are hard to source under sanctions. The strike was carried out by a modernized version of the FP-1 drone, built by Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point. This upgraded FP-1 is capable of flying up to 3,400 km, a leap from the original model's roughly 1,600 km range, says Denys Shtilerman, Fire Point's co-founder and chief designer. Fire Point had already disclosed a 2,700 km version integrating AI-assisted guidance earlier this year; the Omsk strike appears to have used a further-refined iteration of that airframe. Until Omsk, the longest confirmed one-way drone strike belonged to Ukraine's hit on Voronezh-M, a Russian over-the-horizon radar station roughly 1,800 km from the border. That strike was already remarkable, given that winter and spring 2025 saw Kyiv routinely hitting Russian refineries 800–1,000 km from the front line—close enough that refinery managers began requesting their own air-defense units for protection. Omsk doesn't just add another data point to that trend. The new strike pushes Ukraine's own record up by as much as 30% in range, which means the list of reachable targets is only going to grow. It's also reasonable to expect more strikes on Omsk going forward, aimed at cutting crude processing capacity as much as possible and deepening the gasoline shortage further. And the new record shows that Ukraine's work to improve its own weapons is moving fast—on every front at once: Middle Strike, Deep Strike, and the missile program. Click here and just subscribe to Kanal13 - https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13a... https://www.youtube.com/KANAL13AZ/join *ATTENTION: If you woul like to contact with US please, write to +49176 75077516 WhatsApp ▌▌►Website: http://kanal13.tv/   / tvkanal13     / kanal13az     / kanal13.az   Click & Subscribe to the main youtube Channel © KANAL13 [ Azərbaycanın ilk peşəkar internet televiziyası ] The First Internet TV of Azerbaijan