Ukraine's military strike on the Omsk Oil Refinery represents a significant escalation in the conflict by targeting a major Russian energy infrastructure.

Fire Point CTO Iryna Terekh said the strike on the Omsk Oil Refinery was historic because it is Russia’s largest refinery, nearly twice as powerful as Moscow’s, and the only Russian refinery producing cracking catalysts used in secondary oil processing. #Ukraine

Ukraine's General Staff confirmed a strike on the Omsk Oil Refinery, reporting a fire after impacts. It said the ELOU-AVT-11 primary crude processing unit, with a design capacity of 8.4 million tonnes per year, was preliminarily hit. The General Staff described Omsk as Russia's largest oil refinery, with annual refining capacity exceeding 21 million tonnes and producing gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel, lubricants and petrochemical products. #Ukraine

❗️The day has come! Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Omsk Oil Refinery, with upgraded FP-1 drones said to have hit the ELOU-AVT-11 crude distillation unit more than 2,500 km from the Ukrainian border. The unit has a reported processing capacity of 8.4 million tonnes of crude oil per year. Reports also said the refinery began emergency pressure venting after the strike. #Ukraine