Ukrainian forces hit strategic Russian oil pipeline hub 500 km from Ukrainian border

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces hit a junction of two Russian trunk oil pipelines in Russia's Volgograd Oblast in a series of drone strikes on the night of 7-8 June.

Source: Ukraine's Special Operations Forces on Facebook

Details: A fire broke out at the Krasny Yar line operation dispatcher station in Volgograd Oblast following an attack by Ukraine's deep strike units from the Special Operations Forces. The facility, located more than 500 km north-east of the Ukrainian border, belongs to Russia's state-owned Transneft company.

The station is a key oil pipeline hub on two routes of strategic importance to Russia: to the Volgograd oil refinery and to the powerful Sheskharis export terminal in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk via the Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk oil pipeline. The Special Operations Forces noted that this artery from the Volga region and Western Siberia to southern Russia operates precisely through a network of oil pumping stations and line operation dispatcher stations.

In addition, deep strike units from the Special Operations Forces hit a radar station on the territory of an air force and air defence military unit in Kabardinka, a village on the outskirts of the city of Novorossiysk about 400 km from the front line. The radar station was responsible for continuous monitoring of the airspace in the coastal area.

Meanwhile, middle-range strike units from the Special Operations Forces carried out a series of strikes on one of Crimea's key oil depots, Atan, in the Russian-occupied settlement of Hvardiiske north of Simferopol. The facility contains 17 fuel tanks of various types, water tanks, a pumping station and road and rail loading terminals used for accumulation, storage and transshipment.

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