UKRAINIAN drones hit more Russian oil facilities today and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov.

Ukraine’s strikes on oil refineries across Russia have triggered a widespread fuel crisis, with petrol shortages and fuel rationing reported in multiple regions and drivers waiting for hours to fill their tanks.

The acting governor of Russia’s western Tver region, Vitaly Korolyov, said a Ukrainian drone strike triggered a fire at an oil depot in the city of Tver.

In the southern region of Stavropol, Governor Vladimir Vladimirov said oil reservoirs had been set ablaze by Ukrainian drones in Vyazniki. He said the authorities ordered the evacuation of residents of several residential buildings near the facility as the fire expanded.

In the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian drones set two oil tankers ablaze, according to Rostov governor Yuri Slusar, who said that one of the ships was still burning and the crews were evacuated.

The attack was the latest in a series of strikes on oil tankers in the area in recent days, part of Ukraine’s efforts to cut fuel supplies to Russia-occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in addition to strikes on oil facilities in Stavropol and Tver, Ukrainian forces also hit a reserve fuel storage facility about 500 miles from the front line, and an oil-pumping station in Ufa nearly 930 miles from Ukraine’s border.

He said they also struck an oil-loading terminal in the Rostov region about 125 miles from the front line, but it was not clear if that was the same strike described by Mr Slusar.

Mr Zelensky described the strikes as part of Kiev’s campaign of “long-range sanctions” carried out in response to Russian attacks and Moscow’s refusal to end the war.

“We have long proposed that Russia end this war, and every day of delay should bring the feeling of war to where it all began — to Russia,” he said.

Despite apparently warming relations with US President Donald Trump in Ankara this week, the backlash to Mr Zelensky’s decision to name an elite army unit after the Nazi collaborator Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) continued in Europe.

On Wednesday night the European Parliament voted to condemn the decision, which has also seen Poland strip him of its Order of the White Eagle. The UPA murdered over 100,000 Poles and Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine as part of the Holocaust.