US EditionUkrainian Drones Strike Oil Refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Region
The strike targeted an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, part of Ukraine's strategy to disrupt Russian energy funding for the Kremlin's war effort, officials said.
- On Dec. 17, explosions rocked an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, city in Krasnodar Krai, southern Russia, amid a reported Ukrainian drone attack overnight.
- To weaken Moscow's war effort, Ukrainian forces target Russian military and energy infrastructure because Russian energy revenues directly fund the Kremlin's war.
- A WarA screenshot purports to show explosions in Slavyansk-on-Kuban during the reported drone attack, while Kyiv has not yet commented and the reports remain unverified.
- Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the attack caused `serious damage` to local infrastructure after the Slavneft-Yanos oil refinery in Yaroslavl was struck on Dec. 12.
- Just before midnight on Dec. 16, a drone attack and explosions took place in Russia's Saratov Oblast, about 330 kilometers from Ukraine's border, Exilenova+ reported.
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Ukrainian drones strike Russian oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban
Ukraine, in the early hours of Wednesday, December 17, hit Russia’s energy infrastructure again. In Russia’s Krasnodar region, a refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban came under a drone attack. A “fire broke out at process equipment and a pipeline over an area of 100 square meters and was quickly extinguished,” the Krasnodar region’s Operational Headquarters said. Officials said two people were injured and hospitalized. The statement added that drones …
The Ukrainian military has attacked a Russian oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk on the Kuban River in Krasnodar Krai with drones, Russian media reported, adding that the attack in the area lasted at least three hours and that residents reported nearly two dozen explosions. Tens of thousands of people were left without electricity.
Russia and Ukraine fired drones again that night. In both countries there are injured, in Russia once again a refinery was hit.
Drones attacked the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, as a result of which a fire broke out at the refinery in Slavyansk on the Kuban. It is also known about the blackout of 38.8 thousand subscribers.
Ukraine drone debris sparks fire at Russia's Slavyansk refinery, authorities say
Dec 17 - Debris from a downed Ukrainian drone briefly set fire to processing equipment and a pipeline at an oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region overnight, authorities there said on Wednesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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