Yaroslavl

Ukraine's President Zelensky has claimed that strikes at an airfield in Rostov-on-Don have claimed at least six aircraft, including three Antonov transport planes and three Russian helicopters.

The same time, uh, he said there was a strike some 450 miles inside Russian territory on the Slavneft-Yanosh oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl.

That is one of Russia's top five refineries.

It can r- has the capacity of about 15 million tons, uh, of crude per year.

And over the last week, we've seen that steady drumbeat of successful Ukrainian long-range strikes.

On Friday, they hit the Slavneft Yanos refinery in Yaroslavl.

That's 450 miles inside Russia, and a Tupolev 95 reportedly destroyed at the Engels Airbase.

The Tu-95, uh, the swept back long-range nuclear-capable strategic bomber, that was hit 350 miles inside Russia.

And over the last week, we've seen that steady drumbeat of successful Ukrainian long-range strikes.

On Friday, they hit the Slavneft Yanosh Refinery in Yaroslavl.

That's 450 miles inside Russia, and a Tupolev 95 reportedly destroyed at the Engels Airbase.

The Tu-95, uh, the swept-back long-range nuclear-capable strategic bomber, that was hit 350 miles inside Russia.

That has a capacity to refine 4.8 million tonnes of crude oil per year.

Then on the 5th and the 6th, those nights, two consecutive nights, the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in Yaroslavl, that's about 500 miles inside Russian territory, that was struck.

Much bigger refinery that can refine about 15 million tons of crude oil per year.

And then on that second night, the 5th, the night of the 5th into the 6th, a smaller plant in Bashneft, the Bashneft plant in Ufa, That's in Bakhortostan was hit.

And you'll recognize that that is echoing, uh, a campaign that Va- Vladimir Putin very much started by trying to hit Ukraine's civilian infrastructure for almost every year of this war.

Uh, there's also appears to have been an attempted Ukrainian drone strike at Yaroslavl.

That's about 250 kilometers east beyond Moscow from Ukrainian territory.

M- Russian officials last night saying that they intercepted some 375 Ukrainian drones, which is interesting because it makes Ukraine's strike last night, if that's true, larger than the reported, uh, Russian strike in reverse.

A real show of force from Ukraine, and what President Zelensky has, tongue in cheek, slightly mockingly called Ukraine's long-range sanctions against Russia.

Also today, and slightly closer to home, we've seen reports of strikes on the Slavneft-Yanov refinery in Yaroslavl.

That's some 700 kilometers outside Ukrainian territory.

Also reports of strikes at a paint factory in Rostov.