Ukraine strikes two Russian refineries and Baltic Sea port
Ukraine widened its campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure overnight, hitting several oil sites including two refineries in the Samara region and a Baltic Sea port used to ship petroleum products, according to Russian regional governors and a Ukrainian...
Ukraine widened its campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure overnight, hitting several oil sites including two refineries in the Samara region and a Baltic Sea port used to ship petroleum products, according to Russian regional governors and a Ukrainian military official.
In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have intensified strikes on Russian oil depots and refineries, targets seen as vital contributors to Moscow’s war financing. Some of those attacks have reached facilities located thousands of kilometres from the Ukrainian border.
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In the Leningrad region, which encircles St Petersburg and shares a border with Finland, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said a fire at the port of Vysotsk had been put out. The port includes a terminal operated by Lukoil that handles exports of fuel oil, naphtha, diesel and vacuum gas oil.
Ukraine’s drone forces commander, Robert Brovdi, confirmed the port attack in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app and said Ukrainian forces had also struck oil refineries in the Samara region cities of Novokuibyshevsk and Syzran.
“Make Russian Oil Great Again,” he wrote sarcastically.
He also criticised the US decision to renew a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil at sea.
Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the Samara region governor, said industrial targets came under strike. He did not identify the facilities.
Brovdi said a recent wave of attacks on Russian oil logistics hubs in Primorsk, Ust-Luga, Sheskharis and Tuapse had cut total daily oil shipments by about 880,000 barrels. Reuters could not immediately verify the figure.
He added that an oil depot in Russian-occupied Sevastopol in Crimea had also been targeted.
In a separate development, officials in the southern Krasnodar region said fires at an oil depot in Tikhoretsk and at an oil terminal in the Black Sea port of Tuapse, which had been burning since Thursday, were extinguished.
Authorities have said both fires were triggered by Ukrainian drone strikes.