Ukraine Says It Hit Russia’s Sheskharis Oil Terminal On Black Sea
Ukraine said the strike sparked a fire at one of Russia’s largest Black Sea oil terminals, while damage has not been independently confirmed.
- On Saturday, Ukrainian forces struck the Sheskharis oil terminal and Grushova oil depot near Novorossiysk in Krasnodar. Ukraine's General Staff stated the facilities provide oil shipments for the Russian army, while falling drone debris sparked a fire injuring two people.
- Ukraine has sharply increased the scale of strikes on Russian oil refining and transportation facilities in recent months, deploying domestically developed drone and missile technology to reduce revenues the Kremlin uses to finance its war.
- Ukrainian drone commander Robert Brovdi reported that in the first 23 days of May, drones attacked 13 major Russian oil facilities, with six of Russia's 10 largest refineries halting crude processing following the attacks.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin called a Friday strike on a Starobilsk dormitory that killed 18 and wounded 60 a "crime," ordering military retaliation proposals, while Ukrainian Ambassador Andrii Melnyk rejected war crimes accusations at a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting.
- Targets expanded to include the Metafrax Chemical plant in Perm, which ceased operations after Saturday's attack, while the Sheskharis terminal anchors Transneft's regional pipeline network and the tanker Chrysalis in the Black Sea was hit as part of Russia's "shadow fleet.
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