Ukraine has significantly expanded the range and intensity of its long-range strikes inside Russia, with missile alerts reported this year across regions home to more than 70% of the Russian population. According to the Russian monitoring channel Radar across all of Russia, in the past week alone air-raid warnings have been issued across at least five regions of the Volga Federal District southeast of Moscow, as well as in the Astrakhan region (around 900 km from the Ukrainian border) and parts of the North Caucasus (roughly 800–1,200 km away).JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Central Russia – including the Moscow region (about 400–500 km), Vladimir region (around 450 km), Tambov region (roughly 350 km), Orel region (about 250 km), and Lipetsk region (around 300 km) – has also repeatedly issued alerts. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Ukrainian forces struck the Ufa oil refinery, located more than 1,300 kilometers from the front line, for a second time, as well as a military-industrial facility in Russia’s Penza region (around 700 km from Ukraine) producing missile components. The claims could not be independently verified. According to a Bloomberg analysis, the expansion marks a shift from earlier phases of the war, when missile alerts were largely confined to Russian regions bordering Ukraine. This year, even remote areas such as Omsk in western Siberia (nearly 3,000 km from the Ukrainian border) have reported alerts for the first time.