Ukraine says it hits more Russian fuel tankers as Crimea campaign intensifies
Ukraine said the strikes disrupted fuel deliveries to Russian forces and brought the four-day tally of targeted vessels to 36, officials said.
- 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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Ukraine claims hits on more Russian fuel tankers as Crimea campaign intensifies
Ukrainian drones hit a dozen more Russian tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight, Ukraine's military said on Thursday, the latest in a campaign aimed at disrupting fuel supplies to Russian forces and isolating Moscow-occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian drone operators attacked 14 Russian shadow fleet vessels on Thursday night, including 12 tankers. The drone operator’s chief, Robert Brovdi, announced this on Telegram, saying that the strikes were in the Sea of Azov. He added that the Ukrainians had already hit 35 tankers this week. This information could not be immediately independently verified, but the Russian state news agency TASS confirmed two tanker strikes.
35 ships in four days: “Magyar” showed how Ukrainian drones take out the Russian fleet off the coast of Crimea The Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces “Magyar” reported the destruction of 35 tankers, dry cargo ships and special vessels in four days. In total, 45 military targets of the occupiers in Crimea and the south were destroyed on the night of July 9.
Ukraine says it hits more Russian fuel tankers as Crimea campaign intensifies
Ukrainian drones hit a dozen more Russian tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight, Ukraine's military said on Thursday, the latest in a campaign aimed at disrupting fuel supplies to Russian forces and isolating Moscow-occupied Crimea.
Since 25 June, Ukrainian drones have hit Russian refineries, power plants and military devices with the aim of forcing Vladimir Putin to put an end to the war. "CheckNews" has mapped its scale.
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