According to SBU sources, which “Kyiv Post” reached, drones hit the Elou-Avt-4 refinery unit, referred to as “heart” of the object. This installation converts petro oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and heating oil. The attack caused a huge fire and caused a black column of smoke above the object.
Representatives of the Ukrainian army stated in an interview with the “Kyiv Post” service that the facility directly supplies the Russian armed forces. The military describe the attack as a part of wider actions aimed at weakening Moscow's war economy. Attacks in Putin's back room are getting more frequent – and the damage to Putin's war machine is getting more and more severe.
According to Reuters, in recent months Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, hitting at least 10 refineries from the beginning of August and forcing Russia to reduce refinery power by almost 20 percent. Care oil prices in Russia increased rapidly due to drone attacks.
Regional authorities in Bashkiria confirmed the damage to the refinery. The independent Meduza service, in turn, announced that the emergency services are fighting fire.
“Two drones attacked Gazpromu,” wrote the Governor of the Governor of Baszkiria Radij Chabir in the Telegram platform entry, describing the incident as a “terrorist attack”. He said that the bodyguards in the facility opened fire to the drones.
The attacked Gazprom installation is 10. As for the size of the refinery in Russia with the production capacity of 10 million tons of oil per year. It produces over 150 oil and chemical products. Ukrainian drones for the first time attacked the power plant in May 2024.
The attack on the object in Baszkiri took place after another hit at the beginning of this week. The Ukrainian special forces hit on the night of September 16 on a large refinery of crude oil in the Russian region of Saratów, causing explosions and fire in the facility, he informed the general staff of Ukraine.
“Every attack on a Russian refinery limits the aggressor's ability to wage a war against Ukraine,” say sources in the security service of Ukraine (SBU), which is referred to by the “Kyiv Post” website.
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The refinery in the Saratian region processes millions of crude oil annually and produces over 20 types of oil products, including gasoline, diesel, bitumin, heating oil, vacuum diesel and sulfur. In 2023, she processed about 4.8 million tons of oil, Ukrainian officials informed.
Effective attacks on Russia
Last weekend, the Ukrainian campaign aimed at destroying all Russian production capacity of oil focused on the hometown of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin – Sankt Petersburg.
Hard drone attacks hit the oil refinery, covered with sanctions tankowce and seaport, in which they were moored. In addition, a train with fuel suffered as part of a Ukrainian campaign carried out in the Russian back room.
Late in the evening on Friday, September 12, operators from the 14th Ukrainian Aircraft Personal Regiment began one of the largest raids of the swarm throughout the war, shooting in the next four hours 220-230 long-range drones towards goals throughout Russia.
Ok 30 drones Kamikaze headed towards the northwest of the Leningrad region in Russia. Shortly after midnight one by one, the oil pumping station in Primorsk attacked one by one.
In previous attacks over 800 km, Ukraine most often used the UJ-22 Drone February Lutyj-precisely managed unmanned aerial vehicle with a propeller and a 75 kg combat head.
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