Ukraine Drones Strike Pipeline 1,500 Km Deep Into Russia
The SBU said the overnight strikes hit a gas compressor station and a Transneft-Ural dispatch site, causing fires and disrupting fuel logistics.
- Ukraine's Security Service struck the Cherkasy linear production dispatch station in the Republic of Bashkortostan overnight on July 8, hitting a key node of the Transneft-Ural pipeline system roughly 1,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
- Following a standing directive from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to degrade Russia's military-economic potential, the strike occurred during one of the most intensive overnight drone raids on Russian oil infrastructure to date.
- Operating a tank farm with capacity exceeding 385,000 cubic meters, the facility handles almost two million tons of petroleum products annually; military officials reported about 50 enemy energy hubs hit since month's start.
- Gazprom reported that Ukrainian drones struck the Krasnodarskaya compressor station on the evening of July 7, describing the incident as an attempt at "disrupting the uninterrupted supply of Russian gas to Turkey."
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov raised these attacks with Ankara during the NATO summit, while State Duma member Sergey Altukhov condemned the incident as "energy terrorism" against Turkey and Russia.
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Ukrainian forces for unmanned systems have announced one of the largest long-range operations so far, claiming that they have confirmed the strike of 21 ships (including 19 oil tankers) and dozens of military targets in occupied Crimea and southern Ukraine over the past 72 hours.
The Ukrainian military succeeded in striking a key power supply point into the occupied Crimea from Russia.
Dozens of Russian facilities were hit in occupied Crimea. On the night of July 8, Ukraine continued its strikes on strategic Russian facilities in Crimea. Drone attacks targeted a power bridge, a substation, a training ground, and a radar station, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing a statement by Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, on Facebook. SBS "dismantles" Crimea's power grid. "Madyar" noted that a key power rece…
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