Ukraine Strikes Lukoil Perm Refinery for 3rd Time + Sinks Missile Ship in Caspian + Halts 13 Russian Airports

Despite Russia's declared Victory Day ceasefire, Ukraine's SBU Special Operations Center launched coordinated deep strikes across Russia on May 8. The Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery in Perm (1,500+ km from Ukraine) was struck for the third time in two weeks, with drones also hitting the nearby Transneft linear production dispatch station — causing fires at a crude distillation unit and a pipeline storage tank. Ukraine also struck a Project 22800 Karakurt-class small missile ship at Russia's naval base in Kaspiysk on the Caspian Sea, marking Ukraine's first confirmed strike on the Caspian Fleet. Ukrainian drones struck Khankala military base — one of Russia's largest bases — and the area near the FSB office at Grozny's railway station in Chechnya. A large electrical substation in Russian-occupied Crimea caught fire after a drone strike. Rostov-on-Don air traffic control was temporarily suspended, and 13 Russian airports in the south halted operations. The Ukrainian campaign demonstrated the ability to hit targets more than 1,500 km inside Russia while Russia's own ceasefire was nominally in effect.