Something MASSIVE Just Exploded in Russia… Fire Was Seen From SPACE

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Ukraine has reportedly carried out one of its longest-range drone strikes yet, targeting Russia’s largest oil refinery deep in Siberia. In this video, we break down the reported attack on the Omsk Refinery, its potential impact on Russia’s fuel supply and military logistics, the claimed performance of Ukraine’s upgraded FP-1 drones, and reports involving Russia’s Su-57 fighter. Watch for the latest analysis, key developments, and what this could mean for the future of the war.  ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Ukraine Drone Strike Hits Russia Omsk Refinery 03:26 - Russia Loses Omsk Refinery 21 Million Ton Production 06:06 - Ukraine Breaks Record With 2500 Km Drone Strike 08:17 - New Fire Point FP1 Drone Upgrades Ukraine Range 09:45 - Russian Su57 Fighter Jet Fails To Stop Drones 13:14 - Will Russia Massive Fuel Crisis Cause Putin Downfall?  Support us directly as we bring you independent, up-to-date reporting on military news and global conflicts by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow/join  #militarystrategy #militarydevelopments #militaryanalysis #themilitaryshow  SOURCES: https://pastebin.com/RdQcrmMy

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00:00Something massive just exploded in Russia. We feel like we're saying that a lot recently,

00:06which just goes to show how intense Ukraine's long-range campaign has become.

00:10But this strike was different. Russia's largest oil refinery has just been wiped out,

00:16with knock-on effects not only on the fuel crisis Russia is already dealing with,

00:20but also on many other refineries in the country. Ukraine's strike was perfect.

00:252,500 kilometers of travel led to a pinpoint strike that took out a refinery.

00:31And if all of that wasn't humiliating enough, Russia sent its best fighter jet into the fray,

00:36and it achieved the sum total of nothing when trying to stop Ukraine's drones.

00:42On July 7th, Business Insider reported that Ukraine's drones had traveled

00:46thousands of kilometers to touch down on the Omsk refinery in Western Siberia.

00:51Over 2,500 kilometers of airspace was covered,

00:55which is roughly the distance between Los Angeles and Houston, the outlet says.

00:59And that is 2,500 kilometers in which Russia's air defenses tried and failed to stop Ukraine.

01:05The outcome is what we have seen in so many of Ukraine's refinery strikes before.

01:10Video shared by the Xelenova Plus Telegram channel reveals massive black clouds of smoke

01:15rising from the facility as air defense fire is heard in the background.

01:19We all know what smoke indicates. There's a fire at the Omsk refinery right now,

01:23and it's all because Ukraine's drones have scored direct hits at a facility that is supposed to be

01:28so far away that Russia would never have to worry about it. That has all changed.

01:34Ukraine now has record-breaking drones on its hands.

01:38The Omsk authorities are trying to keep things quiet. The region's governor, Vitaly Kotzenko,

01:44would only confirm that Ukrainian drones had attacked the facility, though he said nothing

01:49about fires. Instead, he reported that there were no casualties, which isn't so much good news for

01:54Russia as it's a demonstration of the precision that Ukraine's drones achieved.

01:59Kotzenko also told residents not to approach the debris of drones that had been shot out of the sky,

02:04continuing the old Russian excuse that it's not Ukraine's drones that do the damage to the refineries.

02:09Russia's air defenses shoot everything down, and it just so happens that the debris strikes

02:13precisely what Ukraine wants to hit. It's all a big coincidence.

02:18And in the case of the Omsk refinery, Ukraine's drone debris was even more accurate than it usually

02:22is. Rather than attacking big targets such as oil storage units, Ukraine has something very specific

02:28in mind. The ELOU AVT-11 primary oil refining unit at the Omsk refinery, which has a design capacity of

02:36over 8.4 million metric tons of crude oil annually, was the main target. Take out that refining unit and

02:43you don't even need to make the rest of Omsk burn. It simply won't be able to operate anywhere near

02:47full

02:48capacity because one of its most vital pieces of machinery would be a flaming wreck. And that unit just

02:53so happens to be what the most accurate drone debris in the world managed to strike. We're being

02:59facetious. The reality is that Russia's air defenses failed. Ukraine's drones broke through in Omsk,

03:04and the refinery has just lost the single most valuable piece of equipment in the entire facility.

03:09That's a result worth crowing about, but it's not just the specific type of unit Ukraine struck that

03:14makes this latest attack so special. There are two other reasons why Ukraine will be celebrating,

03:19and Putin's cronies will be crying about what Ukraine just did, and one of those reasons is a

03:24record breaker. But we'll get to that. First, the Omsk refinery is among the most important in all of

03:30Russia. According to the Kiev Independent, it's the single largest refinery that Russia has in terms of

03:36pure production capacity, and it's capable of processing over 21 million tons of crude oil annually.

03:42That figure offers us some perspective on the ELOU AVT-11 strike. Ukraine took out a unit that is

03:48responsible for close to half of what the entire Omsk refinery produces each year. And now that it

03:54knows that its drones have a clear route through to Russia's largest refinery, Ukraine will be almost

03:59certain to follow up. Double and triple taps have become a hallmark of Ukraine's refinery strikes,

04:04so we have a feeling that we'll soon be making a video about Omsk being on fire again.

04:09Militarily, the Omsk refinery is important to Russia's war effort, Ukraine's general staff says.

04:14Yes, the refinery produces a wide range of fuels, likely including gasoline, diesel,

04:19and aviation fuel, which are used by tanks, armored vehicles, and warplanes. Oh, and civilians,

04:25of course. Russia won't be happy to see another of its refineries go down when it's already in the

04:30grip of a countrywide fuel crisis caused by Ukraine. Omsk refinery also makes petrochemical products and

04:37lubricants used by the military, and according to the Kiev Post, it has a refining depth of 99%,

04:42which is one of the highest rates in all of Russia. What this seems to mean is that Omsk comes

04:47closer

04:48than most Russian refineries to reaching its maximum potential in terms of output. Not anymore,

04:53and not by a long shot. But we mentioned certain knock-on effects during the introduction of the

04:58video. The impact on Russia's fuel crisis is one of those effects, and we'll go into that soon.

05:03However, there's something else that makes the Omsk refinery so special,

05:06and it's revealed in Militanyi's report on Ukraine's latest and most impressive strike.

05:11The outlet says that the Omsk refinery is the only one in all of Russia that produces

05:16cracking catalysts. Those components matter because they are required by other facilities

05:21for secondary oil refining. Catalytic cracking is a process that breaks down complex hydrocarbons

05:28into simpler and lighter molecules. Fuel producers use the process to enhance both

05:32the yields and the qualities of fuel products, such as gasoline and kerosene. If Russia has lost

05:38access to its cracking catalysts, it's also lost the ability to create high-quality fuels.

05:44That's bad news for millions of Russian engines, which will be subject to more wear and tear as

05:49people are forced into using lower-grade fuel. A minor problem, sure, but it's another problem added

05:55to the pile that is crushing Putin right now. All of this is impressive enough. However,

05:59we told you that there are two reasons why Ukraine is celebrating the Omsk strike,

06:03and one of those reasons has something to do with breaking records. We've given you a clue already

06:08when talking about the distance. 2,500 kilometers isn't just a remarkable distance for a drone to

06:14travel. It's the largest distance that any drone has traveled and then gone on to conduct a successful

06:19strike in the Ukraine war. United24 media reveals that Ukraine's drones have never flown that far before,

06:25and that there is a possibility that 2,500 kilometers is the lowest end of the estimate. How?

06:33The Omsk refinery is 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine's border in a straight-shot flight.

06:38It's unlikely that the drones Ukraine used for this strike would have flown directly from border to refinery.

06:44The odds are that they would have had to take a less direct flight path to avoid Russia's air defenses,

06:49meaning the true distance traveled could be over 3,000 kilometers. Either way, this is a world record.

06:55Ukraine has shattered the previous record of 1,800 kilometers, which it set during an attack on a

07:01Voronezh-M over-the-horizon radar back in August 2025. Ukraine has pushed its own range capabilities up by

07:08at least 30%, United24 media reports. For Russia, that means only one thing. Ukraine's strike radius has

07:16grown even larger, and almost nothing is safe from Ukraine's drones. If Putin didn't get the message

07:22from the smoke signal wafting out of the Omsk refinery, then Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

07:27made it crystal clear in the wake of the strike. Siberia, too, is now within reach of Ukrainian

07:32precision strikes, Zelenskyy declared. As he revealed that what Ukraine just pulled off is a record,

07:38not only in Ukraine, but worldwide. Prior to this, the Omsk refinery had remained out of reach for

07:43Ukrainian drones. That's an interesting point to consider. Ukraine wasn't able to hit Omsk until

07:48now. And yet, as you'll soon discover, Ukraine used a type of drone that has become a feature

07:53of its deep-strike campaign to conduct this attack. Sounds like a contradiction, right? A drone that

07:58Ukraine has used before was the type of drone it used to carry out a strike at a range not

08:03previously

08:03thought possible. What gives? We're about to tell you, but before we do, this is The Military Show.

08:09If you haven't subscribed to the channel yet, now's the perfect time to hit that button before we get

08:14back to the video. The drone that Ukraine used to hit the Omsk refinery was the FP-1,

08:19which is made by Firepoint and has established itself as one of the most important long-range

08:23drones in Ukraine's arsenal. That has been confirmed by Firepoint's founder Denis Stielemann,

08:29who took to X to declare,

08:31Omsk refinery meets the new FP-1, as he shared a video of smoke rising from the facility.

08:36But hold on a second, the FP-1 can't travel 2,500 kilometers or more, right?

08:41Wrong! Firepoint's founder gave us a little clue about what just hit Russia when he mentioned the

08:46new FP-1. Ukraine's most important long-range drone has undergone an impressive evolution since

08:52it was first unleashed. The original model indeed wouldn't have been able to carry out the Omsk refinery

08:57attack. It could only travel 1,600 kilometers, which is still an impressive distance, though it puts

09:04Siberia out of range. However, Firepoint has been tweaking that drone and has come up with something

09:09special. Using AI-assisted guidance to expand its range, the new FP-1 is capable of traveling 2,700

09:16kilometers. Interestingly, if United24 media's conjecture about the drone having to take an

09:22indirect flight path to Omsk is true, then Firepoint may have upgraded the FP-1 to travel even farther than

09:28that. Still, the FP-1 isn't perfect. Though it packs a punch and can travel a long way, it still

09:33only has

09:34a maximum speed of 205 kilometers per hour. That's slow enough for air defenses that detect the drone

09:39to destroy it, only they've failed. It's also slow enough for Russia to be able to unleash one of its

09:45most advanced fighter jets to combat the FP-1. So that's what Russia did in Omsk. Russia sent the ultra

09:51-modern,

09:51supposedly fifth-generation, Su-57 to tackle the FP-1s that Ukraine sent to the largest refinery on

09:58Russian turf. There could only be one winner in this battle between the Su-57 and the FP-1.

10:04The FP-1. Wait, what? In a humiliation even greater than the one caused by the fact that Ukraine's drones

10:11could travel over 2,500 kilometers in the first place, Russia sent what is supposed to be its best

10:17fighter jet to tackle the drone problem, only to see that jet utterly fail to prevent Ukraine's

10:23direct hit on the Omsk refinery. The Su-57 is supposed to be a powerhouse that could handle

10:29a drone in seconds, yet this so-called fifth-generation fighter couldn't carry out this

10:33basic task that Russia needed it to do. That revelation comes from Militanyi, which reports

10:38that an Su-57 was spotted in the Omsk skies during Ukraine's refinery attack. That isn't conjecture,

10:44there is footage of the jet in flight, suggesting that Russia tried to use its fifth-generation

10:48fighter to tackle Ukraine's drones. There's no confirmation of whether the Su-57 succeeded

10:53in managing to shoot anything down. Maybe it took out an FP-1 or two, but failed to stop the

10:58drone

10:59that struck Omsk. Worse yet for Russia, that Su-57 deployment also involved Russia using an A-50U

11:05early warning and control aircraft, which should have been delivering all the data that the Su-57 pilot

11:10needed to take Ukraine's drones out. Still, the Su-57 failed. Two of Russia's most advanced aircraft

11:18couldn't stop Ukrainian drones traveling at a fraction of their top speeds. The footage from the

11:24Su-57 deployment suggests that it being in the skies over Omsk wasn't some strange coincidence.

11:29The Su-57 is designed so that its weapons can be housed in internal bays, which helps to keep the

11:35jet's radar signature low. However, the Su-57 spotted in Omsk was equipped with external hardpoints

11:41for weapons that could be fired quickly at any drone spotted. In particular, the Su-57 has R-74M2

11:48missiles, which are air-to-air guided weapons that should be more than enough to take out FP-1s.

11:54None of it was enough. And that shows us that the Su-57 is nowhere near what it's cracked up

11:59to be,

12:00even if it has supposedly been tweaked so that Russia can use it for drone detection and elimination.

12:05The reason Putin would be hanging his head in shame right now, if he had the capacity for shame,

12:10is that he has lauded the Su-57 as the best fighter jet in the world.

12:14It's our best plane. Not only ours, the best in the world. By all operational characteristics and by

12:21its armament, no other aircraft can fly as well as our plane, Putin said back in 2019.

12:27Apparently, an FP-1 can fly better. It can at least fly well enough to avoid Russia's supposed world

12:33beta. Something tells us that it's all gone a little bit wrong for the Su-57. The jet has already

12:38been

12:39exposed as falling well short of true 5th generation fighter jet standards. Its engines are just upgraded

12:45versions of those found in the Su-27, the new voice of Ukraine points out. That impacts the stealth

12:51capabilities of the jet as it means the engine doesn't have a nozzle that reduces heat emissions,

12:55giving it a larger radar signature than Western-made 5th generation fighters.

13:00At best, the Su-57 is a slightly more advanced 4th generation jet. At worst, well, we just saw that.

13:07Russia's best fighter jet can't stop an FP-1.

13:10So Russia has a problem with its Su-57s. But the real problem brings us back to what Ukraine just

13:15struck. Omsk is yet another oil refinery that has, at the very least, had its capacity severely reduced.

13:22And what this strike shows us, beyond the remarkable range of Ukraine's latest drones,

13:26is that the campaign against Russian oil that has been waged for well over a year at this point is

13:31only growing more intense. According to Business Insider, Ukraine reports that it's carried out

13:36over 50 attacks against Russia's oil infrastructure since March. Those attacks have led to about 42% of

13:43Russia's total refining capacity being hit, and that's having a clear effect on production.

13:48There is now fuel rationing taking place all over Russia, and national gasoline production has dropped

13:5417% to 850,000 barrels per day. That seems like a lot until you realize that Russia's domestic demand

14:01for gasoline during the summer runs to 110,000 tons per day. There's a 25,000 ton daily shortfall,

14:08and it's all because of Ukraine's refinery strikes. The Financial Times has even more numbers.

14:14It says that Ukraine has managed to hit Russian refineries at least 194 times since the beginning

14:19of 2026, which is 11 times more than the number of these types of strikes that Ukraine carried out

14:25during the first six months of 2025. Russia claims to have intercepted 63,933 Ukrainian drones on its

14:32territory during the first half of the year, including a record-breaking 17,832 interceptions

14:38in June alone. We know what Russia means by interceptions. These are just the numbers of

14:43drones that Ukraine launched. Plenty broke through, and Russia just claimed that they were intercepted

14:48anyway. What we see here is a deep strike campaign that has grown so intense that it's crippling Russia

14:54from the inside. The fuel shortages we've mentioned are rampant. CNN says that they cover all 11 time

15:00zones in Russia, as almost every single one of the 83 regions that Russia has is dealing with shortages.

15:07Russia is starting to get desperate as the queues outside gas stations become unmanageable. One of the

15:13world's largest producers of fuel has so many burning refineries that it's being forced to import from as

15:18many sources as it can find. Premlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has even confirmed this

15:24approach, stating in a call with journalists, if agreements can be reached at acceptable price

15:29points, then imports will move forward. This is all happening as Russia has banned the exports of

15:33gasoline and aviation fuel, and seems set to do the same for diesel. Traditional importers to Russia,

15:39such as Belarus and Kazakhstan, don't produce enough fuel to fill the widening gap in Russia's

15:44stockpiles. The Saratoga Foundation reports, Reuters says that India is being added into the mix as a

15:50potential importer, as Russia tries to get its hands on 400,000 tons of gasoline to stem its shortage.

15:56But none of these emergency measures change a simple fact. Russia can't protect its oil refineries.

16:01The country's creaking air defense network has been whittled away through years of Ukrainian strikes,

16:06and there are no longer enough systems and missiles to cover high priority targets,

16:11such as the largest oil refinery in all of Russia. Omsk should have been guarded by layers of Russia's

16:17best air defenses. Instead, all we've seen and heard is scattered fire in the video of Omsk refinery

16:22burning and a failed Su-57 sortie that reveals far more than Putin wants to know about the true

16:28state of what he claims to be the best fighter jet in the world. You'd like to think that Ukraine's

16:34refinery campaign becoming so all-encompassing would be enough to make Putin consider that maybe,

16:39just maybe, it's time to negotiate an end to the war that he started. But so far,

16:43the best that Putin has managed is vague acknowledgement of the growing oil and fuel

16:47crises in Russia as he tries to buy time for a turnaround that isn't coming. Still, Ukraine

16:53will keep striking. Its goal is to change Putin's war calculus by making him realize that his invasion

16:59does more damage to Russia and its people with every day that passes. Putin has responded with

17:05aggression. His demands for peace have grown more maximalist, and he's now calling for Ukraine to

17:10cede its southern territory along with the Donbass. But these are the demands of a desperate man who

17:15knows that his time is running short. Russia's leader has just watched Ukraine's drones strike

17:20over 2,500 kilometers deep into Russia. Now he's wondering what's next. Ukraine has a wealth of targets

17:27to choose from, and plenty of drones to strike almost anything of military importance in Russia.

17:32Putin's desperate defiance is the last gasp of a failing leader, and it could well spell his downfall.

17:38Angry Russians at the empty gas pumps are already starting to turn against him.

17:42But as more soldiers than ever die in Ukraine, there may be a mutiny brewing. Putin has received

17:48a warning, and a plot that may run so deep that it penetrates his inner circle could be forming.

17:52Find out more by watching our video. And if you enjoyed this video, make sure that

17:57you subscribe to The Military Show as we chart everything that Ukraine is doing to speed up Putin's

18:01downfall. And thank you for watching.

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