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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 25, 2026Published at 1:18 AM EDT · New York
Ukrainian drones hit Omsk industrial zone 2,500 km from the border, injuring three
A separate drone attack on Belgorod killed one person and injured ten, and Russia's Investigative Committee opened a terrorism case.
Ukrainian drones attacked Omsk on Saturday evening, and three people were injured, Omsk Region Governor Vitaly Khotsenko said, according to TASS. Kommersant confirmed the figure (translated from Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the Russian government's newspaper, reported that the drones reached the city's northern industrial zone while air defenses were firing. Interfax reported that a logistics center was hit.
The Russian edition of The Moscow Times, which operates outside Russia, reported that the targets included a petrochemical plant and a warehouse of the online retailer Ozon, about 2,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Local outlet Sib.fm said staff at the logistics center were evacuated. Omsk is home to Gazprom Neft's large refinery, one of the biggest in Russia.
In Belgorod, near the border, a drone attack caused major damage to housing, cars, and social and commercial buildings, killing one person and injuring ten, according to the independent Russian Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti. Russia's Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for terrorism, RIA Novosti reported. Ukraine's military had not commented on either attack in the reports available at the time of writing. Russian state media describe these strikes as terrorism, while Kyiv presents its long-range strikes as attacks on the military-industrial and fuel supply chain.
The war's cost in soldiers also keeps rising. The independent outlet Mediazona and its partners have now identified by name almost 283,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, and added 6,880 names since early October.
Part of a tracked trend
The War Reaches Russia's Interior
The Ukraine war increasingly manifests inside Russia through drone strikes and attacks on soft targets far from the front, steadily raising the country's domestic risk premium and internal-security costs.
Veracity: Corroborated
87/100- If true, who benefits
Kyiv and the Ukrainian drone maker Fire Point gain from showing they can strike 2,500 kilometers inside Russia. Moscow gains from a terrorism framing that justifies more internal security spending and retaliation against Ukraine's power grid.
- The nuance
Russian sources and Ukrainian sources both confirm the strike and the three injuries (TASS, Izvestia, Militarnyi). Fire Point publicly claimed the attack, which means Kyiv's side did speak, but the target list comes from a manufacturer with a commercial interest in advertising its drones' range. Ozon says its staff were evacuated and none were hurt. The Belgorod casualty figures rest on a single Telegram channel.
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