New Delhi, July 19 -- KYIV - Ukraine struck three oil storage depots and a fuel distribution facility in Russia's Stavropol region overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Sunday in a statement that extended the geographic perimeter of Ukrainian strike operations deep into Russia's industrial heartland, more than a thousand kilometres from the front lines of the active ground war.

The Stavropol region, in Russia's south, sits far removed from the contested territories of Zaporizhzhia or Donetsk where ground combat is concentrated. Strikes reaching this deep into Russian territory signal a deliberate expansion of Kyiv's targeting doctrine beyond the frontline belt and the border regions that have been the primary focus of Ukrain...