{"id":1145,"date":"2026-06-14T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2026-06-14T10:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:53:01","slug":"ukrainian-drone-strikes-kill-1-and-spark-fire-at-oil-facility-in-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone strikes kill 1 and spark fire at oil facility in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/37b51fe\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6648x4430+145+0\/resize\/980x653!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fb5%2F52%2F75c03e36b341eb4bd02cfc7a41f8%2Fba5aba6741d4464d9c440fabe2b2123c\" width=\"100%\" \/><small>Servicemen of Ukraine&#8217;s defense intelligence set up the Peklo (Hell) missile drones against Russian in an undisclosed location in Ukraine late Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>2026-06-14T09:45:38Z<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia\u2019s southwestern Oryol region, local officials said Sunday, while a separate strike hit an oil facility as part of Kyiv\u2019s campaign of <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-military-strikes-4a158f6273807683d48692dedb4121b8\">strikes on military and energy targets<\/a><\/span> deep inside Russia. <\/p>\n<p>Oryol regional Gov. Andrei Klychkov said Sunday that one person died and nine were wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a residential building overnight in the regional capital, also called Oryol.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities in Russia\u2019s Yaroslavl region, around 700 kilometers (440 miles) from the Ukrainian border, said fuel storage facilities caught fire after being hit by a drone.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country\u2019s forces had \u201cstruck an oil facility that was important for the reserve of the aggressor state\u201d in the Yaroslavl region. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has stepped up its <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-oil-drone-attacks-environment-bd5d03a3e3515f0a3b5b48031bc2c18c\">attacks on Russia\u2019s oil and gas facilities<\/a><\/span> in recent months, arguing the energy sector funds and directly fuels Moscow\u2019s more than four-year invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Britain is <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sweden-sea-owl-i-shadow-fleet-4a949b7b11d355e7db0a767982125e6e\">investigating a sanctioned tanker<\/a><\/span> that is suspected of being part of the <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-sanctions-shadow-fleet-oil-baltic-ukraine-76b66900d599d6e49692643674907fc0\">Russian \u201cshadow fleet,\u201d<\/a><\/span> shipping oil in violation of international sanctions over <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine<\/a><\/span>, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>British armed forces <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shadow-fleet-russia-uk-starmer-moscow-110f493f617176d64d84e588754db091\">boarded and detained<\/a><\/span> the vessel, the Smyrtos, on Sunday in the English Channel, in what the country\u2019s Defense Ministry called \u201cthe first U.K.-led operation of its kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia is believed to be using a fleet of hundreds of ships to evade sanctions over its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine that they cannot hide,\u201d Starmer said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Servicemen of Ukraine&#8217;s defense intelligence set up the Peklo (Hell) missile drones against Russian in an undisclosed location in Ukraine late Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky) 2026-06-14T09:45:38Z A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia\u2019s southwestern Oryol region, local officials said Sunday, while a separate strike hit an oil facility as part&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}