The strikes happened just hours before Donald Trump is set to return to the White House, amid signs he will use oil sanctions to strong-arm Vladimir Putin to agree to peace in the war.

A drone attack overnight on Jan. 14 caused damage to an industrial facility in the city of Engels, located in Russia's Saratov region. Engels lies around 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the front lines in Ukraine.

Ukraine continues to cripple Russia's energy sector by hitting numerous oil refineries, depots, chemical plants, and more with drones.

Ukraine launched waves of long-range strikes, including its ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, at targets inside Russia.

A large fire engulfed an oil depot overnight on Jan. 8 in the city of Engels in Saratov Oblast, various Russian Telegram media channels reported.

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Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian cities of Saratov and Engels during the night, damaging an industrial facility, according to Roman Busargin, the governor of the Saratov region.

Kyiv targeted Russian factories developing weapons, an oil depot, a refinery and air defense systems, a Ukrainian official said.

While the ground war in eastern Ukraine has settled into a grinding war of attrition, where Russian forces sacrifice hundreds, sometimes thousands, of troops a day, for small, incremental advances, the air war has the two sides inflicting significant losses on each other's energy sector.

Ukraine's latest aerial bombardment was spread across 12 Russian regions, with targets including an oil depot and an airfield in Engels.