Ukraine says it struck Russian oil site

The Ukrainian army said on Wednesday that it had struck an oil terminal in the Russian border region of Bryansk overnight, which has been used, according to kyiv, by Russian forces in their war against Ukraine for almost three years.

Russian authorities, for their part, reported a Ukrainian drone attack in Bryansk and another missile attack in Taganrog, a town in the Rostov region, also bordering Ukraine.

“Defense forces struck an oil site of the Russian occupiers” in the Bryansk region causing “a massive fire,” the Ukrainian army general staff said in a statement.

The Bryansk terminal is part of the Druzhba oil pipeline, a strategic axis for transporting Russian oil to several European countries, and it is “actively used to supply the Russian occupation army,” Ukrainian defense assured .

Without mentioning the terminal, the Russian governor of this region Alexandre Bogomaz reported a “fire at an industrial site” in the city of Bryansk following a “drone attack”, in a press release on Telegram, while claiming that the fire had been extinguished.

He claimed that Russian air defenses shot down ten drones over the Bryansk region. Russian Telegram channels have published videos purporting to be those of a large fire which broke out at this oil site after a drone attack.

The city of “Taganrog suffered a missile attack last night,” said the governor of the Rostov region, Yuri Slioussar. “An industrial company was damaged and 14 cars burned in a parking lot,” he added. “No one was hurt.”

The city’s mayor reported a heating cut in around thirty residential buildings.

According to some Russian media, the attack probably targeted an aviation factory in Taganrog. Ukraine has not commented on the attack on the city of Taganrog.

In response to Russian bombings on its infrastructure and cities, Ukraine has increased attacks against Russian energy sites in order to disrupt the logistics of Moscow’s army which still occupies nearly 20% of Ukrainian territory.