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Ukrainian drone attack causes fire at Russian oil terminal tapped for exports as Kyiv scales up long-range strike capabilities
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A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, local officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region said Saturday, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry.
Key facts
- On Saturday afternoon, Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces had struck the Sheskharis oil terminal overnight
- Ukraine has expanded its mid- and long-range strike capabilities, deploying drone and missile technology that it has developed domestically to battle Russia’s 4-year-old invasion
- Meanwhile, the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike overnight into Friday on a college dormitory building in Starobilsk, a city in Ukraine’s Russia-occupied Luhansk region, rose to 18, the press
- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denounced the attack on the dormitory as a “crime” and ordered the military to submit its proposals for retaliation
Summary
Authorities in the city of Novorossiysk said falling drone debris sparked a fire at an oil terminal, injuring two people. On Saturday afternoon, Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces had struck the Sheskharis oil terminal overnight. “The facility provides shipment of oil and oil products for export and is involved in meeting the needs of the Russian army,” the General Staff wrote on Telegram, adding that Ukrainian forces had also hit a tanker in the Black Sea belonging to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.” Ukraine has expanded its mid- and long-range strike capabilities, deploying drone and missile technology that it has developed domestically to battle Russia’s 4-year-old invasion.