Russians hit SOCAR petrol station near Mykolaiv twice – photo, video
Russian forces struck a SOCAR petrol station in the village of Nechaiane on 5 July, around 30 km from Mykolaiv on the road to Odesa.
Source: Ekonomichna Pravda source in the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies
Details: According to the source, the station was hit twice: the first Shahed drone struck at 19:16, followed by a second at 19:33.
"On 3 July, monitoring channels reported a high level of threat, warning that the enemy was planning to carry out large-scale strikes up to 150 km behind the front line, deliberately targeting logistics facilities, freight transport and petrol stations. A number of filling stations belonging to different chains in Mykolaiv and the surrounding region were identified as potential targets, including the SOCAR complex," the source said.
Background:
- Russian strikes on petrol stations in frontline regions have become increasingly systematic over the past week. On 1 July, five filling stations in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were damaged. On 3 July, Russian forces targeted petrol stations in Sumy, Chernihiv, Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts.
- On the evening of 1 July, as Russia launched its latest large-scale attack on Ukraine, the WOG petrol station network announced that its stations in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast would be closed from 23:00 until 07:00. From the same date, WOG stations in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson oblasts, as well as some stations in Poltava Oblast, have operated only between 07:00 and 21:00.
- On 8 August 2025, Russian forces struck an oil depot belonging to Azerbaijan's SOCAR in Ukraine. Ten days after a second strike, the facility was completely destroyed.
- The SOCAR petrol station network is owned by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), Azerbaijan's largest oil and gas company. Its filling station operations in Ukraine are managed by its subsidiary, SOCAR Energy Ukraine.
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