Ukrainian drones struck multiple pieces of Russian oil infrastructure overnight, damaging a tanker and an oil refinery in the southern city of Taganrog and hitting an oil depot in Armavir, according to Russian officials and Ukraine’s military.
Rostov region governor Yury Slyusar said fires on the tanker and in Taganrog’s port area had been extinguished and no oil spill was detected. Two people were injured in the attacks, he said. Taganrog mayor Svetlana Kambulova added that a local state of emergency imposed on May 27 had been extended.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air defences shot down 127 Ukrainian drones overnight. Slyusar said nearly 50 drones were intercepted over the Rostov region alone, where attacks were reported across the province bordering Ukraine’s Donbas region. Damage outside Taganrog was described as minor.
In neighboring Krasnodar Krai, officials in Armavir said a fire at an oil depot in the city’s industrial district had been contained and no casualties were reported.
Ukraine claimed responsibility for several of the strikes. The commander of Ukraine’s drone forces said drones hit targets in Taganrog as well as an oil depot in Feodosiya in Russian-controlled Crimea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the strike on the Armavir oil facility, located roughly 500 kilometres from Ukraine’s border, portraying it as part of Kyiv’s strategy of targeting infrastructure that supports Russia’s war effort.
“We are rightfully bringing the war back to where it came from,” Zelensky wrote on X, adding that another facility of Russia’s oil industry had been successfully reached in Armavir, Krasnodar Krai.
The latest attacks underscore Ukraine’s expanding long-range drone campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure, a sector Kyiv has increasingly targeted as the war enters its fourth year.
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