Drone Attack Sets Fire to a Refinery Near Yaroslavl as Turkish Sailors Sue Ukraine at the ICC

A fire broke out at an oil refinery near Yaroslavl after a drone attack, TASS reported, citing regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev, who said no deaths or injuries occurred. Yaroslavl sits several hundred kilometres from the front line, and the refinery is one of a series of Russian energy and logistics sites hit by long-range drones over the past year.

In a separate case, Turkish sailors have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against Ukraine over a drone attack on their cargo ship that killed a crew member, RT reported. Kyiv has not publicly responded to the filing. The claim extends the legal front of the war to commercial shipping in the Black Sea, where third-country crews carry much of the cargo.

Russia's defence ministry, through RIA Novosti, reported that a Grad rocket artillery crew destroyed a concentration of Ukrainian troops on the Sumy axis. Battlefield claims from either side are not independently verified.

The pattern across all three reports is the same. The fighting now targets infrastructure, fuel processing and shipping rather than front-line positions alone, and insurers, refiners and neutral shipowners not party to the conflict absorb the resulting costs.