According to the SBS statement, the unit commander, Major Robert “Madiar” Browdi, emphasized that as a result of attacks on facilities on the Primorsk–Ust-Luga–Shescharis–Tuapse route the daily amount of transmitted oil decreased by approximately 880 thousand. barrels.
At the current market price of Urals oil this means losses of around USD 100 million. daily.
These attacks destabilize the operation of key ports, disrupt logistic routes and force Russia to use alternative, overloaded routes.
Damage to key terminals
In recent days, facilities in the Novorossiysk region have been particularly damaged. Following the attacks on the Sheshcharis terminal, Russia attempted to redirect flows to Tuapse. However, there was a Ukrainian attack there too. On April 16, the Tuapse refinery was attacked, which caused an extensive fire. According to reports, the fire has still not been extinguished.
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Further attacks took place on Saturday morning. Ukrainian drones hit a refinery in Novokujbyshevsk in Samara Oblast, where a fire also broke out. The Ukrainska Pravda website, citing eyewitness accounts on social media, reported that the flames had spread to the plant premises.
Strikes in Crimea and Krasnodar Krai
On the night from Friday to Saturday, Ukrainian drones also attacked a factory in Tikhoretsk in the Krasnodar Krai. There are facilities responsible for transporting crude oil to terminals on the Black Sea coast. At the same time, in Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, a fire broke out in a fuel warehouse, also as a result of the Ukrainian attack.
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that Four oil industry facilities in Russia were attacked in one night. The fire spread to the refineries in Novokujbyshevsk and Syzran in the Samara Oblast, the RPK-Vysotsk Lukoil-2 oil terminal in the Leningrad Oblast and the oil pumping station in Tikhoretsk.
