Ukrainian forces hit eight Russian infrastructure targets in six regions, including Yamalo-Nenets refinery and Caspian port
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck eight Russian infrastructure objects across six regions in a single day, including an oil refinery in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Makhachkala sea port in Dagestan. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine separately reported strikes on Russian military targets including drone launch and storage sites, command posts, radar stations and an ammunition depot.
Key points
- Zelensky announced eight strikes on Russian infrastructure objects "working for the war" in a Telegram post dated 10 September.
- An oil refinery in the Yamalo-Nenets region was among the targets hit.
- The Makhachkala sea port in Dagestan was struck overnight on 10 September, according to local residents who reported explosions.
- Other targets were located in the Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions.
- The Makhachkala port is described as Russia's only year-round ice-free deep-water port on the Caspian Sea and reportedly serves as a delivery point for Iranian Shahed drones.
- Ukrainian defense company Fire Point said FP-1 drones were used in the strike on the Makhachkala port.
- The General Staff separately reported strikes on a Geran/Gerbera drone storage and launch site in occupied Donetsk, UAV and troop command posts in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, three Nebo-SV radar stations in the Bryansk region, a drone-control relay in Trubchevsk, and an ammunition depot near Dovzhansk in Luhansk region.
Why it matters
The breadth of the strikes — targets in six regions, including an energy facility deep inside Russia in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and a Caspian Sea port used as a delivery point for Iranian Shahed drones — illustrates the long range of Ukraine's drone capabilities and its effort to hit Russian energy and logistics infrastructure tied to the war effort. The General Staff's parallel account of strikes on Russian military targets, including drone launch sites, command posts, radar stations and an ammunition depot, shows sustained pressure on the systems Russia uses to direct strikes against Ukraine.
What happened
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in a Telegram post on 10 September that Ukrainian forces had struck eight Russian infrastructure objects over the previous day that he described as "working for the war." Targets included an oil refinery in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Makhachkala sea port in Dagestan, and objects in the Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions. Local residents in Makhachkala reported explosions in the city during the night of 10 September, and Ukrainian defense company Fire Point said FP-1 drones were used in the strike on the port. The Makhachkala port is described as Russia's only year-round ice-free deep-water port on the Caspian Sea and reportedly serves as a delivery point for Iranian Shahed drones to Russia. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported a separate set of strikes on 9 September and during the night of 10 September, hitting a storage, preparation and launch site for Geran/Gerbera strike drones in occupied Donetsk, UAV unit command posts in Osypenko, Komyshuvate, Yasnohirsk and Ochereytyne (Donetsk region) and Tokmak, Russian troop command posts in Luhanske and Zaitsieve in Donetsk region, three Nebo-SV radar stations at Pavlyn, Kartushyn and Antonivka in the Bryansk region, a ground-based repeater used to control strike drones in Trubchevsk, and an ammunition depot near Dovzhansk in Luhansk region. The General Staff said the extent of the damage was still being clarified and that work on key Russian military targets continues.
Where reporting differs
Sources broadly agree on the location and scale of the strikes. The only divergence is in how the day of the General Staff's reported strikes is described: one source dates the General Staff's strikes to "September 9 and the night of September 10, 2026," establishing the year explicitly, while other sources do not state the year.
Background
President Zelensky announced the strikes in a Telegram post, framing all eight targets as objects that "work for the war." Ukrainian defense company Fire Point stated that the Makhachkala port was hit with FP-1 drones. Local residents in Makhachkala reported explosions in the city during the night of 10 September. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said the extent of damage is still being clarified and that work on key Russian military targets continues.