The Slavyansk oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar area has actually been required to suspend some operations after being harmed in a Ukrainian drone attack, the state TASS news company mentioned an executive supervising the plant as stating on Saturday.
On the back foot on the battleground in some locations, Ukraine has actually been methodically targeting Russian energy infrastructure centers– regardless of U.S. ask for it not to do so– in an effort to interfere with Russia’s economy and, for that reason, its capability to money its war effort.
A Ukrainian intelligence source informed Reuters that Ukraine had actually assaulted the Ilsky and Slavyansk oil refineries in Russia’s Krasnodar area with drones early on Saturday, triggering fires at the centers.
The exact same source stated Ukrainian drones had actually likewise targeted the Kushchevsk military airfield in the exact same area over night.
Russia’s Defence Ministry stated its air defense systems had actually damaged 66 Ukrainian drones over the area of the Krasnodar area and 2 more over the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
“The work of the (Slavyansk) plant has been partially suspended. Exactly 10 UAVs (drones) flew directly into the plant, there was a strong fire. There may be hidden damage,” Eduard Trudnev, the security director at Slavyansk ECO Group, which runs the plant, was mentioned as stating by TASS.
Earlier on Saturday, Roman Siniagovskyi, a city government authorities in Slavyansk, stated on his authorities Telegram channel that the refinery’s tank centers had actually not been harmed however that a distillation tower had actually been struck.
He stated a fire brought on by the attack had actually been put out and no one had actually been hurt.
