The Frontline with Jerome Starkey
Oct 15, 2026 · 37 min · 15 segments
Ukraine has launched a monuments strike on the Omsk oil refinery over 2500km inside Russia as well as blitzing Putin’s google as TWO Yandex data centres go up in flames. Jerome Starkey brings you the…
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This is Ukraine's reply to a similar campaign of Russian strikes against its own data centers, which had caused brief internet outages in Ukraine.
Both sides appear to be doing this at this stage to try and simply cut people off from the internet, to limit, to inhibit ordinary life.
There may well be, although we're yet to see it clearly, uh, explicit sort of military objectives to these strikes, such as disrupting, targeting information processing, uh, artificial intelligence, for example.
It refines or has the capacity, I should say, to refine 6.5% of Russia's entire, entire crude refining capacity.
In both occasions, uh, by FirePoint missiles, operations led by the Ukrainian Special Forces, the SSO.
Uh, this time they've said that their, their weapons, their drones flied significantly further than the 1,500 miles.
Because it's such a big site, such an important site to Russia's oil industry.
Significant ag- because of how hard it is for Ukraine to hit it, both in terms of range and avoiding air defenses on the route.
Uh, the Salavat plant responsible for about 3% of Russ- Russia's oil refining capacity, uh, the Ukhta plant responsible for about 1% of Russia's refinery.
And a number of other strikes this week, successful Ukrainian long-range strikes.
We understand this makes missile plants for Kh-101 and other, uh, Russian missiles, as well as some sort of rocket fuel propellants.
This is Ukraine's reply to a similar campaign of Russian strikes against its own data centers, which had caused brief internet outages in Ukraine.
Both sides appear to be doing this at this stage to try and simply cut people off from the internet, to limit, to inhibit ordinary life.
There may well be, although we're yet to see it clearly, uh, explicit sort of military objectives to these strikes, such as disrupting, targeting information processing, uh, artificial intelligence, for example.
It refines or has the capacity, I should say, to refine 6.5% of Russia's entire, entire crude refining capacity.
In both occasions, uh, by FirePoint missiles, operations led by the Ukrainian Special Forces, the SSO.
Uh, this time they've said that their, their weapons, their drones flied significantly further than the 1,500 miles.
Because it's such a big site, such an important site to Russia's oil industry.
Significant ag- because of how hard it is for Ukraine to hit it, both in terms of range and avoiding air defenses on the route.
Uh, the Salavat plant responsible for about 3% of Russ- Russia's oil refining capacity, uh, the Ukhta plant responsible for about 1% of Russia's refinery.
And a number of other strikes this week, successful Ukrainian long-range strikes.
We understand this makes missile plants for Kh-101 and other, uh, Russian missiles, as well as some sort of rocket fuel propellants.
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