Video: Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Refinery at Port of Tuapse
Just days after a suspected drone strike disabled an LNG terminal at Ust-Luga, Russia, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian refinery on the Black Sea port of Tuapse. The port is a whole lot of miles behind the entrance traces, and the assault displays the efficacy of Ukraine’s new long-range suicide drones.
Bystander video confirmed a column of flame and smoke ascending from the middle of the complicated, close to a distillation column. The fireplace was extinguished inside hours, native officers stated. The extent of the injury and its results on refinery operations usually are not but recognized.
The Tuapse oil refinery is at the least the fourth gasoline facility in Russia hit by Ukrainian long-range suicide drones during the last week. pic.twitter.com/2oTUWDcdSa
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) January 25, 2024
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) January 24, 2024
An explosion and fireplace have been reported close to an oil refinery/storage facility in Tuapse, Russia. ~440 km from the entrance line. Presumably on account of a UAV assault. pic.twitter.com/zFz0Cakil2
— Special Kherson Cat ???????????? (@bayraktar_1love) January 24, 2024
Russian media retailers have additionally launched bystander movies of what seems to be a drone plane buzzing in the direction of the refinery complicated earlier than impression, confirming Ukrainian claims.
Footage of a Ukrainian assault drone heading towards the Russian Rosneft refinery in Tuapse earlier tonight. pic.twitter.com/iIT5jqZq5r
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) January 24, 2024
The Rosneft-owned refinery is a part of an unlimited tank farm complicated extending inland from the seaport, and it’s the solely Russian facility of its form on the Black Sea coast. No impacts on the waterside infrastructure or the storage tanks have been reported.
The results on international power markets seem like slight. According to TankerTrackers.com, Tuapse solely exports about 100,000 barrels per day of petroleum – a comparatively small fraction of whole Russian output, which is measured in thousands and thousands of barrels per day.
In addition to the assaults at Ust-Luga and Tuapse, petroleum services have additionally been hit not too long ago in St. Petersburg, Tambov and Bryansk. The string of assaults could also be meant to blunt a widely-anticipated new Russian offensive.
