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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian drones struck a major refinery deep inside Russia, military officials said Thursday, the fourth in three days in Kyiv\u2019s ongoing campaign to choke Moscow\u2019s vital oil sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russia is one of the world\u2019s biggest energy producers, with oil providing an economic mainstay as its military tries to push deeper into Ukraine in a slow and costly advance more than four years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The attacks have dented Russia\u2019s refining capacity, causing shortages at gas stations<\/span>. Kyiv officials say the onslaught is meant to compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a peace deal, but there\u2019s no sign<\/span> that strategy is working.<\/p>\n

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The targeted refinery is one of Russia\u2019s biggest <\/h2>\n

Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said its forces struck the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil refining and petrochemical complex in Russia\u2019s republic of Bashkortostan overnight, causing a fire at the facility.<\/p>\n

The complex, located southeast of Moscow about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from Ukraine\u2019s border, is one of Russia\u2019s largest such facilities, the General Staff said in a Telegram post. The plant processes up to 74 million barrels of oil annually, producing gasoline, diesel fuel and other products, it said.<\/p>\n

Bashkortostan Gov. Radiy Khabirov said only that a drone attack wounded two civilians and started a fire in an industrial zone of Salavat.<\/p>\n

Wildberries<\/span>, Russia\u2019s biggest online retailer whose giant warehouses have repeatedly been struck by Ukrainian drones, said a fire started at one of its facilities in the Salavat industrial zone after the overnight attack. The company said the facility was evacuated but that goods were not being stored there.<\/p>\n

The attack came a day after Ukrainian missiles and drones blitzed a major Russian naval base<\/span> on the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, four explosives experts from Russia\u2019s Emergency Ministry and a security guard were killed Thursday after an unspecified Ukrainian weapon blew up in Sevastopol, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor for the port city in illegally annexed Crimea.<\/p>\n

They were inspecting the site of a Ukrainian attack when \u201can enemy weapon detonated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Also in Sevastopol, a Russian serviceman was killed by an explosion, and a Russian woman, allegedly acting on the orders of Ukrainian intelligence agencies, was detained as a suspect, the Crimean branch of Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service said Thursday.<\/p>\n

It was not possible to independently verify either side\u2019s reports.<\/p>\n

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