Ukraine’s drones flew nearly 2,000 miles into northwestern Siberia to strike two Russian gas facilities, a record distance for the war, said Ukrainian special forces.
The strikes on Wednesday targeted a major plant in Novy Urengoy, a gas-producing city, and another facility about 60 miles south in the Purovsky district, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, or SSO, said in a statement.
Both are in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a region in the Russian Arctic zone.
“Until today, this was considered an absolutely safe rear for the aggressor,” the SSO said, hailing the strikes as Kyiv’s “deepest defeat” of Russia since the full-scale invasion…
