Ukraine launched a wave of overnight long-range strikes against military, energy and naval targets across Russia and occupied Ukrainian territory, reaching as far as the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains, according to Ukrainian officials on July 25, 2026. The claims could not be independently verified.

“We have very good results from our long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that Ukraine “continues to apply long-range sanctions in response to Russian strikes” and hit targets in several regions “that are fueling this war.”

Warship and Iran-linked cargo ships hit

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said its drones struck a Russian Navy Project 1241.8 missile corvette in the Caspian Sea, two cargo ships under international sanctions for moving military cargo between Iran and Russia, and a production platform at the Filanovsky offshore oil field. Only two vessels of that corvette class, the Stupinets and the Strelok, are known to exist, and it was not clear which one was hit.

The SBU described the operation as retaliation for Russia’s “terrorist strikes on Ukrainian ports in the south,” which have targeted Ukrainian shipping. It warned that such attacks would “receive a legitimate response” and that the war would return to its “home harbour.”

Targets deep inside Russia

Zelenskyy listed four other targets struck overnight:

  • A defense plant in Kirov, roughly 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, which he said produces components for Russian weapons.
  • The oil refinery in Tyumen, more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukraine.
  • A logistics facility in Yekaterinburg in the Urals.
  • A fuel and lubricants depot in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia.

Open-source analysts identified the Kirov target as the Avitek defense plant. The monitoring group Exilenova+ said a Ukrainian-made Flamingo cruise missile was used and that satellite images show it punched through a production building’s roof before exploding inside, causing a large fire.

In Yekaterinburg, videos shared online appeared to show a fire at a warehouse of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, about 1,750 kilometers from the border. Ukrainian officials say the company’s facilities are increasingly used to store and move military supplies. Sverdlovsk Governor Denis Pasler said air defenses repelled the drone attack and that falling debris started a small fire in the Chkalovsky district, with no casualties.

Air defenses and frontline targets

The SBU also said it hit air defense assets in Russia’s Rostov region, including a 92N6E “Grave Stone” radar used with the S-400 system, a Tor-M2 air defense system, a Pole-21 electronic warfare complex and two warehouses holding FPV drones.

Ukraine’s General Staff separately reported strikes on an early-warning radar near Olenivka in occupied Crimea, an ammunition depot near Novosemenivka in occupied Kherson Oblast, and drone command posts in the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Sumy regions, as well as in Russia’s Bryansk and Belgorod regions.

The strikes reflect Ukraine’s steady expansion of long-range attacks in recent months, aimed at weakening both Russia’s military capacity and the economy that funds its invasion.

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