Ukrainian drones struck the TANECO refining complex at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, roughly 1,200 km from the Ukrainian border. Ukraine's General Staff confirmed the refinery strike and a fire at the plant. Tatarstan authorities reported 13 people killed and 78 injured across industrial and civilian sites in the city, including a child; nine of the dead were at a hostel and seven were Uzbek nationals according to Uzbekistan's consular office. Russia's foreign ministry called for international condemnation.
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Deepest strike of the war hits Nizhnekamsk; 13 killed
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Why it mattersTwo things at once, and the module records both. It is the campaign's furthest confirmed reach — a depth that puts refining capacity previously treated as beyond the war inside it — and it is the clearest case in this module of a military-economic target producing large civilian casualties. Vigil's standing position is that the second fact is not a footnote to the first: the campaign's effects are recorded where they land, including when they land on people who are not part of the system being attacked.
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