Ukraine's GIANT Russia strikes force Putin to admit failiure as Zelensky unveils lethal new missile

Ukrainian drones have hit Volgograd, reportedly striking an oil refinery in an area that is also home to the caustic chemical plant.

And it's around 300 miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory.

That refinery processes around 4% of Russia's annual capacity.

Moscow said that overnight it downed 646 Ukrainian drones.

We always take those figures with a pinch of salt, but also official reports of damage in Tuapse in Krasnodar.

That's at the eastern edge of the Black Sea.

Similarly, around 300 miles from Ukrainian-controlled territory.

President Zelensky has also claimed that there have been strikes in Samara.

And this past week, we've seen the Perm oil refinery hit.

Now, that's 1,100 miles inside Russian territory.

Accounts for about 3.5% of Russia's refining capacity.

And I should point out, these refineries aren't being knocked out every time by every strike, but often it is being inhibited.

Sometimes they're shut down for days, sometimes for longer.

Sometimes they manage to carry on, but always at a sort of reduced functionality.

Also, reports of an electronics plant hit in Ulyanovsk and an optics plant, a military optics plant in Rostov.

Rostov-on-Don being too sort of fairly close to Ukraine, just beyond, uh, the Black Sea.

On the 26th of September, the Ilsky refinery in Krasnodar Krai was hit.

That was the 17th time, according to my tally.

So that is the refinery that's been hit more than any other.

That produces or has the capacity to produce around 2% of Russia's oil output.

Also a ref- a pumping station on October the 1st hit in Samara.

Uh, the ammunition plant hit near Moscow was the Krasnogvardeysk.

The Krasnogvardeysk chemical plant, which produces chemicals for ammunition, for explosives.

According to The Moscow Times, 40 people in the plant at the time of that attack, seven of them reportedly killed.

Now, this week we've also heard from President Zelensky, who has said that Ukraine has fired in anger in combat operations an FP7 missile for the first time.