Ukraine deployed drones to attack an oil refinery in Russia's Siberian region, causing a fire, while Kazakhstan's leader met with Vladimir Putin and told the Russian president that the war should come to an end.
On Saturday, 25 July 2026, Ukrainian drones targeted an oil refinery in Russia's Siberian region, disrupting athletics competitions in the Ural Mountains area. At the same time, Kazakhstan's president told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Ukraine war should be ended.
The governor of Tyumen in Siberia reported a fire at the local oil refinery following the Ukrainian attack, while the Russian Athletics Federation announced that nationwide athletics competitions in Yekaterinburg, near the Ural Mountains, were temporarily suspended due to drone threats.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed responsibility for the attack in Siberia and said Kyiv had struck a military facility in the Kirov region for the second consecutive day, following a prior attack that reportedly killed five people, according to local officials.
Kyiv stated that the retaliatory strikes aimed to undermine Moscow's war capabilities and pressure the Kremlin government to come to the negotiating table.
Meanwhile, at the Russia-Kazakhstan summit in Omsk, Siberia, Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told Vladimir Putin that the Ukraine war should be brought to an end.
“It is deeply tragic that young people have to die... These things must stop,” Tokayev said while sitting next to Putin, adding that the conflict should be frozen for the time being and suggesting a return to the Istanbul negotiation framework before moving toward the "long-awaited peace."
This was a rare public moment where a national leader directly told Putin that the fighting in Ukraine should stop. Despite being an ally of Moscow, the Kazakh leader has never supported Russia’s invasion, stating that the origins of this war are “difficult to understand.”
Putin responded that he would provide Tokayev with further “details” of the war.
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Source:cna