Ukrainian drones targeted several Russian oil facilities overnight, including two refineries in the Samara Oblast and a port on the Baltic Sea used for exporting petroleum products, Russian regional governors and a Ukrainian military official said on Saturday.
Forces from Kyiv have intensified attacks on Russian oil depots and refineries—key sources of revenue for Moscow’s war budget—sometimes targeting sites thousands of kilometers from Ukraine’s borders, according to Reuters.
In the Leningrad Oblast, which surrounds Saint Petersburg and borders Finland, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said a fire had been extinguished at the port of Vysotsk, where a terminal belonging to Lukoil is located.
In a Telegram statement acknowledging the port strike, the commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, Robert Brovdi, said Ukrainian forces also struck oil refineries in the cities of Novokuibyshevsk and Syzran. Both locations have been repeatedly targeted during Russia-Ukraine War.
“Let’s make Russian oil great again,” he wrote sarcastically.
Brovdi also criticized the decision of the United States to lift restrictions on purchasing Russian oil.
Governor of the Samara region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, said industrial facilities were hit, without specifying their type.
According to Brovdi, a series of recent strikes on Russian oil infrastructure in Primorsk, Ust-Luga, Sheskharis, and Tuapse has reduced total daily oil shipments by around 880,000 barrels.
He added that an oil depot in Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, was also targeted in Saturday’s attacks.
