Long-range Ukrainian drones strike oil refinery deep inside Russia
September 24 (UPI) – The Ukrainian drones flew about 1000 miles on the Russian territory to hit one of the country’s largest oil refineries on Wednesday, and the facility was attacked for the second time last week.
According to the SBU sources specified by the news agency operated by the state agency, the security service of Ukraine or SBU, the Neftekhim Salavat facility in the Bashkortostan Republic of Russia determined after more than one drone. Ukrinform.
Images circulating online showed large columns of large, black fumes from the site, BBC Saying that the images in two separate videos are real to confirm that they use satellite matching and reverse image searches.
Radiy Khabirov, the Governor of the Bashkortostan, confirmed that Ukrainian drones hit the Gazprom Neftekhim refinery on social media.
“All emergency services are working on the site and Efforts to extinguish the fire Khabirov said.
The SBU source said that the facility, which was operated by the majority -state gas giant Gazprom, is one of Russia’s largest petrochemical facilities and produces approximately 150 kinds of gasoline, diesel, fuel, bitumen and polyethylene.
The attack on Wednesday came six days after the two Ukrainian planes hit the same facility and caused a big explosion.
The Ukrainian forces accelerated Russia’s attacks on the energy infrastructure of Russia as a tactic to disrupt the war machine. The sector sees both as a legitimate military target due to the fact that Russian forces provide energy products to feed tanks, aircraft and drones and provides the income they produce to pay for war.
This year, Kiev has achieved more success by distributing long-range missiles against refineries, oil stores and other military-industrial targets, causing production offline and causing famine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that the gas was inadequate for the first time at the beginning of this month and said that the demand for the far east of the country exceeded the supply and expects a significant increase in the future demand to worsen the situation.
