Oil facilities in Russia under attack again

Drone warfare

Oil facilities in Russia under attack again

Russia’s oil industry is not calming down. In its defense against Moscow’s invasion, Ukraine is relying on drone attacks against strategic targets in the hinterland – and Russia’s air defense is powerless.

Ukrainian combat drones hit two oil depots during the night Russia set on fire. “Last night in Tver, as a result of repelling a drone attack, a fire broke out in one of the reservoirs of the Tver oil base,” the region’s governor Vitaly Korolyov said, according to Russian news agencies. According to him, the fire department is still extinguishing the fire. At the same time, an oil depot in the southern Russian region of Stavropol went up in flames.

The local governor, Vladimir Vladimirov, initially wrote on Telegram about a fire in an unspecified industrial facility in the town of Vyasniki, a few kilometers north of the regional capital. He later admitted that the flames had spread. “The fire has reached the reservoirs with fuel,” he said. For safety reasons, the adjacent streets would have to be evacuated.

Once again, Russian oil tankers were also the target of Ukrainian drone attacks. The governor of the southern Russian region of Rostov, Yuri Slyussar, reported two more strikes on ships in the Sea of ​​Azov. Because of the fires that broke out there, security forces brought the crews off board. The day before, Slyussar had reported drone attacks on two ships – the Ukrainian drone troops reported hits on nine ships at the same time.