Ukrainian drone attack triggers fire at a Russian oil terminal
A Ukrainian drone strike caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, local officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region said Saturday. Attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry.
Officials in the city Novorossiysk says crashed drone debris sparked a fire at an oil terminalinjured two people. Russia’s Astra news outlet reported that Ukrainian drones hit the Sheskharis oil terminal and warehouse, the terminal for Russian state-controlled pipeline company Transneft’s main oil pipelines in the region. In the images published by Astra, smoke was seen rising above the oil terminal, but these could not be confirmed.
On Saturday afternoon, the Ukrainian General Staff said its forces hit the Sheskharis oil terminal overnight.
“The facility provides export-oriented shipments of oil and oil products and plays a role in meeting the needs of the Russian army,” the General Staff wrote in Telegram, adding that Ukrainian forces also hit a tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” in the Black Sea.
Ukraine has expanded its medium and long-range offensive capabilities. drone and missile technology developed domestically to fight 4-year occupation of Russia. Attacks on Russian oil assets, which played a key role in financing the occupation, became almost daily events.
Meanwhile, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said that the death toll in a Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Friday on a university dormitory building in Starobilsk, a city in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, rose to 18. According to the ministry, 60 people were injured in the attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday condemned the attack on the homeland as a “crime” and ordered the military to submit proposals for retaliation. He said there were no military or law enforcement near the university.
At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the strike at the request of Russia, Ukrainian Ambassador Andrii Melnyk rejected his Russian counterpart’s accusations of war crimes, calling them “purely a propaganda show” and asserting that the May 22 operations were “exclusively aimed at the Russian war machine.”
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