Russian forces struck an oil processing plant owned by the American company Bunge in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on September 10, 2026, killing two people and wounding several others, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said the attack was part of a deliberate Russian campaign against American business interests in Ukraine.
Writing on the social media platform X, Sybiha said the strike was not an accident but part of a systematic terrorist campaign by Moscow against American business and US economic interests. He said it came just weeks after an attack on another American-owned company in Sumy region. He said such strikes underscored the urgent need to strengthen Ukrainian air defense and increase pressure on the Russian government to end the war and move toward meaningful diplomacy.
The strike hit the Dnipropetrovsk oil extraction plant during the day on September 10. The plant produces the widely sold Oleyna cooking oil brand. Bunge is a major US-based agribusiness company that trades and processes agricultural commodities, including oilseeds, around the world.
Mayor Describes Repeated Attacks
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said the plant had already been attacked more than once and that this latest strike used Bandanol loitering munitions. He said Russian forces did not care about Americans, their property or the concerns of US senators, and called on Ukraine's Foreign Ministry to raise the issue and draw international attention to it.
Dnipro is a major industrial city in central Ukraine and has been repeatedly targeted by Russian strikes since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Pattern of Strikes on Civilian Infrastructure
Russian forces regularly attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across the country using strike drones, missiles, guided aerial bombs and multiple rocket launch systems. Ukrainian authorities and international organizations describe these strikes as war crimes and say they are targeted rather than accidental.
Strikes on power, heating, water and communications systems, as well as on healthcare facilities, are intended to deprive people of the basic conditions needed for life, which Ukrainian officials and rights groups say is a hallmark of genocidal acts. Russia's leadership denies that its military has deliberately struck civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities and villages during the full-scale war, despite strikes that have killed civilians and destroyed hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and energy and water facilities.
