A depot supplying two Russian regions with fuel is burning after an overnight drone strike
Russian officials again blamed "falling drone debris," the phrasing Moscow uses to avoid admitting a direct hit.
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Oil storage site burns in Russia’s Rostov Oblast after Ukrainian strike on key fuel logistics hub behind occupied territory
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces say they struck an oil depot and fuel storage base in Gukovo, confirming a strike that OSINT analysts linked to a major fire at a fuel facility in Rostov Oblast.
Russian crude reaches the sea through tunnels under a mountain ridge—and Ukraine hit the storage end near Novorossiysk
Pipelines link the Grushovaya depot to Novorossiysk's loading berths about 12 km away. Locals counted about 50 blasts before a huge fire lit the mountains above Russia's main Black Sea oil port.
Ukraine hit Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia with same weapon that sank Moskva Black Sea Fleet flagship
The refinery supplies fuel and lubricants to the Russian military.
Volgograd refinery and a key Yaroslavl oil-pipeline station struck in one night
In the afternoon, Russia shut airports 2,000 km from Ukraine over an unprecedented missile alert that covered the entire Urals Federal District, as Kyiv pushed its long-range campaign deeper into Russian territory.
Russia’s “falling debris” routine continues as Ukrainian drone hits Tuapse oil terminal for 5th time this spring
The Krasnodar Krai operational HQ described the damage as caused by "falling drone debris."
Ukraine hits one of Russia’s largest oil refineries — days after Moscow refused Zelenskyy’s ceasefire and struck kindergarten
The plant processes around 15 million tons of oil annually. Commissioned in 1961, it is one of Russia's largest petroleum producers.
$7 billion lost from Russia’s war economy this year through Ukraine’s “long-range sanctions” on oil sector – Zelenskyy
Damage to processing and export facilities has reduced Russia’s ability to sell oil abroad at full capacity, driving a sharp drop in export earnings.
Ukrainian drones 4–0 Tuapse oil: refinery ablaze again after fourth strike last night
Cleanup from the earlier strikes is still pulling fuel and contaminated soil from the ground. The 1 May attack lit up another section of Rosneft's refinery/terminal complex.
“Oil rain” reported in Perm after Ukrainian drones set Transneft pumping station ablaze 1,500 km from the war zone
Transneft hub is burning, "oil rain" reported in Perm. The Orsk oil refinery and a machine-building plant in Orenburg Oblast were also hit overnight.
Ukraine is building a bigger deep-strike drone machine — middle- and deep-strike operations both scaling up, more units from May
The drone forces say they already run more than 100,000 combat sorties a month. Now its commander is formally expanding the tiers that reach deepest into Russian territory.
Russia’s Black Sea oil hub resumes loading amid sustained Ukrainian drone campaign
One berth active at Russia's biggest Black Sea crude hub, with full recovery timeline unclear.
Russia’s governor said a pipeline was hit in Primorsk. Two hours later he said it wasn’t. NASA showed a fire at the tank farm
Leningrad Oblast governor Drozdenko revised his account of the 5 April drone strike on Primorsk — scrapping the pipeline damage claim and saying shrapnel had hit a fuel tank — while satellite data pointed to fire at the oil depot, not a pipeline at all.
Ukraine struck a refinery 800 km inside Russia — then hit the power plant keeping it running
The Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez facility in the Volga region, one of Russia's largest refineries by volume, processes up to 17 mn tonnes of crude a year and is a key supplier of petrol to Moscow Oblast.
Ukraine’s drones return to Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Ufa 1,300+ km from the front — the primary distillation unit is burning again
Without the AVT unit, which performs the first stage of crude processing, the rest of the refinery cannot operate.
Ukraine hits Ust-Luga and Primorsk for the third time in five days — the pace suggests Kyiv is trying to destroy Russia’s Baltic oil export ports beyond repair
NASA satellite data confirmed new fires at both ports; together they handle 2 million barrels of Russian crude exports daily. A drone also struck Severstal's blast furnace in Cherepovets in the same night.
Ukraine just hit the fuel tank that feeds southern Russia’s pipeline — here’s why this strike hurts more than a refinery fire
The Armavir station isn't a refinery — it's the reservoir buffer for Transneft's whole pipeline section; when it burns, the entire fuel flow along that route stops, not just the station itself.
Ukraine just blew up the same oil terminal in southern Russia for the third time since December (MAP)
Four fuel storage tanks were burning at Tamanneftegaz after Ukrainian drones returned to the Black Sea facility they'd already hit twice in December.
Ukrainian drones hit Syzran oil refinery in Russia, military installations across occupied regions (MAP, VIDEOS)
General Staff confirmed that Ukrainian forces also struck a Russian boat storage site in occupied Crimea and a Shahed depot in Makiivka.
Drones hit Russian oil tanker ablaze in Rostov-on-Don port, the ship is sinking (UPDATED, MAP)
In the region, residents of Rostov, Bataysk, and Taganrog reported blasts and flames overnight in what local authorities say was a multi-city drone assault.