Ukraine says it hits more Russian fuel tankers as Crimea campaign intensifies
Ukraine said 14 vessels were hit in one night, including 12 tankers, as its drone campaign targets fuel supplies to Russian forces.
- 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 Escalates Strikes On Russian Supply Routes Near Crimea
Is Ukraine changing the rules of the battlefield? Its latest wave of drone strikes suggests the fight is no longer just about the front lines. It is about cutting off Russia’s lifelines.Kyiv says it has intensified attacks on maritime supply routes near Russian-annexed Crimea. It says it is targeting ships in the Sea of Azov as part of what it calls a “logistics lockdown.”Ukraine’s drone force commander, Robert Brovdi, known as “Magyar,” claimed…
Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian ships near occupied Crimea in recent days. According to the Ukrainian army, twelve Russian tankers were hit in the Sea of Azov during the night of Wednesday to Thursday. The Sea of Azov is an inland sea connected to the Black Sea via the Kerch Strait. The Ukrainian army has released footage of the attack. The location and the date the images were taken could not be determined: The Ukrainian General St…
Kiev claims to have reached at least 36 Russian tankers and ships in four days, in a campaign to cut off supply and fuel to the Moscow army and weaken its logistics
Today, Ukraine attacked several Russian oil installations and two oil tankers in the Sea of Azov with drones.
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