Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) reported conducting a joint sabotage operation with a Russian underground resistance movement against an oil pumping station in Yaroslavl Oblast that feeds crude toward Russia's Baltic export terminal, SSO announced on 14 June. The military called it the second coordinated action with the partisan group in one week. Euromaidan Press cannot independently verify the reported damage.
SSO and Black Spark report joint operation on Palkino station
SSO said it conducted "special actions" on the Palkino oil pumping station in Myshkinsky district, Yaroslavl Oblast, in coordination with the Russian underground resistance movement Chornaya Iskra (Black Spark). The Special Operations Forces reported that operators struck "key elements of the enemy's oil transport infrastructure."
Russian underground movement Chernaya Iskra confirmed its participation and called the station "a very important facility."
"With exports, of course, they'll have to wait. Here in Russia itself, the Hunger Games for gasoline are starting — what exports?" the group wrote.
SSO said this was the second joint operation with the partisan movement this week. On 12 June, SOF and Chernaya Iskra struck the TANECO refinery in Tatarstan, SOF stated. That strike was previously reported by Euromaidan Press as part of a broader overnight raid confirmed by Ukraine's General Staff.
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Striking oil transport infrastructure reduces Russia's capacity to export energy resources and cuts the revenues funding the war against Ukraine, SOF stated.
Euromaidan Press cannot independently verify the report or confirm damage at the Palkino site at this time. NASA's FIRMS thermal monitoring system shows fires continuing at the Rybinsk Rosrezerv oil depot in the same Yaroslavl Oblast after the overnight drone strike on 14 June, but registers no fires in the area of Myshkino over the past month, where Palkino is located. This may mean that any damage caused didn't trigger large fires.
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