In a big attack on Friday, Russian long-range attack drones hit four Russian oil factories, sensor stations, and other military targets in Russia, according to Kyiv’s defense.
Ukraine has dramatically increased its drone use this year to attack Russian crude facilities, calling them reasonable military installations and supporting Russian forces in their almost 28-month-old invasion.
” Unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the Afipsky, Ilsky, Krasnodar, and Astrakhan fuel refineries”, the Russian army said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.
Russia’s war said before that it had fallen 70 uavs over the Black Sea and Ukraine’s held Crimean island, 43 drones over Russia’s Krasnodar area and one more over Russia’s Volgograd place on Friday.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet was fuelled by Afipsky, Ilsky, and Krasnodar oil factories, according to a source with knowledge from Kyiv, and that the SBU surveillance company collaborated with the aircraft operation against them.
The damage caused by these refineries will considerably complicate the transportation of providing fuel oil, making it more time-consuming and expensive, as it will need to be delivered from another refineries, according to the source.
Additionally, the Russian military said it attacked the Bryansk region’s and held Crimea’s radar stations and digital intelligence centers. The speech did not specifically describe what those websites were.
Drone store and build websites, command and control facilities in Russia’s Krasnodar region were also struck, it said, adding they had confirmed bombs and burns at these services.
The aircraft attack, according to the cause, had targeted a teaching facility in the Krasnodar region’s Yeisk, where Russia had launched drone attacks against Ukraine.
The Ukranian defense, in their speech, furthermore claimed responsibility for Thursday’s helicopter strikes carried out on fuel warehouses in the Russian areas of Tambov and Adygeya.
Following Russia’s most recent airstrikes on Russian energy plants, which have resulted in blackouts and raised questions about how the network will operate this winter, Friday’s drone attack came after it was conducted.
Since March, the Russian attacks on the electricity grid have significantly damaged Ukraine’s power generating capacity. Moscow claimed that some of the attacks were reprisals for Ukrainian assaults on Soviet soil.
