Ukrainian drones attacked in Siberia, over 2,000 km away from the front line. Russian officials evoke an industrial facility but have not disclosed it

The Ukrainian drones attacked the Tuumen city of the Russian region Siberia on the evening of Monday, October 6, local officials announced, according to The Kyiv Independent.

Officials from the Tuumen region of Russia said on Telegram that three Ukrainian drones were overcome above an “industrial facility” in the city, adding that no fires, victims or explosions were recorded during the attack.

According to local officials, the respective facility works “without interruption” after the attack, but did not specify exactly what industrial installation it is.

The Russian Astra channel, on Telegram, wrote, citing locals, that the target could have been the Antipinsky oil refinery, located in the southeast of the city. The residents of the area reported that they heard explosions and saw numerous firefighters on the road between 8:00 pm and 21:00.

In a brief reaction following this attack, the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Russia transmitted that no fire was held at the refinery, and the statements of the local officials could not be verified from independent sources.

Although the attack was likely to have been made with Ukrainian drones with a long range, the Ukrainian army has not yet commented on the blow. The Kiev forces began to regularly attack military targets in the Russian territory, in their efforts to reduce Moscow's battle power.

In recent months, Kiev has also increased the frequency of attacks on Russian oil refineries, in an attempt to disrupt a motor economic force that supplies Moscow's war funds.

The Tumen region of Russia, located over 2,060 kilometers (1,280 miles) from the front line, was also the target of Ukrainian attacks. A source of the Ukraine Military Intelligence Agency (HUR) told Kiev, on July 11, that this spy service is behind an operation that caused an explosion to an important gas pipeline in the region.

According to the Financial Times, 16 of the 38 Russian oil refineries have been hit since August 2025, attacks that have taken Russian diesel exports to the lowest level in 2020.

On the night of October 6, the Ukrainian drones hit the terminal of Feodosia, the largest oil terminal in the annexed peninsula.

These attacks come in the context in which the fuel shortage continued to worsen throughout Russia. At the end of last month, the Russian authorities introduced new measures in an attempt to stabilize internal fuel supply, including the extension of the gas export prohibition, as well as the imposition of new limits to the export of diesel.