Ukraine launches drone strikes on Russia's energy sites
Ukraine has launched airstrikes over oil facilities in western Russia using attack drones, marking the most recent aerial offensive by Kiev with the objective of disrupting Russian military logistics.
Vasily Anokhin, governor of Russia’s Smolensk Oblast region bordering with Belarus, confirmed the attacks, saying that the energy sites in the western region were in flames early Wednesday after being hit by Ukrainian drones.
"Our region was again targeted by Ukrainian drone attacks," Anokhin wrote on X.
"Fires erupted following enemy attacks on civilian energy infrastructure sites," he added, noting, however, that no one was hurt.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has intensified its aerial assaults on Russian energy installations with the aim of incapacitating Moscow to launch attacks on Ukrainian cities or expand its control in the industrial east.
Meanwhile, governor of Lipetsk, a city in western Russia, Igor Artamonov announced that a different drone strike was carried out on the Lipetsk region, where metallurgical and pharmaceutical facilities are situated.
"The Kiev criminal regime tried to hit infrastructure in Lipetsk industrial zone," Artamonov said, without mentioning any victims and adding that residential neighborhoods were not targeted.
On Wednesday, a Ukrainian defense sector official said, "Rosneft lost two storage and pumping bases for fuels and lubricants in the towns of Yartsevo and Rozdorovo," referring to the Russian energy giant.
The source added that the drones had attacked facilities that store 26,000 cubic meters of fuel and said Ukraine would continue to carry out such bombardments.
"These facilities are -- and will remain -- absolutely legitimate targets," the source said.
Ukraine has in recent months targeted Russian refineries and oil storage facilities.
This comes as one manufacturer of long-range Ukrainian drones claims that some US officials are fully behind Ukraine targeting Russian industrial output.
“They’re privately telling us to keep going,” they told the journalists earlier this month.
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