UKRAINE hit Russia with a powerful double strike on vital oil depots used to supply Vladimir Putin’s military close to annexed Crimea.
Raging flames were seen after three oil tanks exploded from reported kamikaze drone strikes at Temryuk in Krasnodar in Russia.
A massive explosion ripped through the Russia oil depot in KrasnodarWILL STEWART
Two employees were injured at the facility.
“As a result of the air strike, the infrastructure of the oil depot was damaged,” admitted regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev.
“The fire is being extinguished now.
“The fire has been assigned a high category of complexity.”
In a separate devastating attack at Port Kavkaz, another oil depot as well as port facilities was hit and ignited in flames.
The site in the Kerch Strait is close to Putin’s £3 billion 12-mile road and rail Crimean Bridge, linking the occupied Black Sea peninsula to Russia.
Early reports indicated multiple casualties.
Some reports said this was a drone attack but it was later confirmed as being by modernised Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles.
Eight such missiles were used to strike a ferry crossing and oil terminal in Port Kavkaz, according to Ukrainian journalist Andrey Tsaplienko.
“Every one reached the target at about 2am. The latest Russian air defence systems could not do anything,” he said.
The use of Neptune missiles was confirmed by the Ukrainian general staff.
“Several Ukrainian-made missiles from the Neptune coastal missile system were fired at the oil terminal near Port Kavkaz,” said a statement.
Drones were used at the Temryuk oil terminal.
“‘Modern’ and ‘effective’ Russian air defence was once again powerless against our missiles and unmanned systems and failed to protect important facilities used for logistics and supplies for the Russian army,” said the Ukrainian general staff.
“This depot [in Port Kavkaz] supplied fuel to the Russian army in Crimea and in the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions,” reported RBC-Ukraine.
A night earlier, seven Russian boats – including two ferries used for military transportation – were damaged in missile strikes.
Traffic on the giant crossing was halted amid the barrage of attacks from Ukraine.
Explosions were also heard in Kerch and Novorossiysk as Ukraine steps up its fightback against Putin’s numerically superior forces.
And Kazan – deep inside Russia on the Volga Rover – was also buzzed by a Ukrainian drone.
An explosion was reported in the vicinity of the Kazanorgsintez chemical plant.
Ukraine is engaged in a campaign to denude Russia’s oil refining and supplying capacity, and has hit dozens of plants in 2024.
Russia continued its bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city.
Three people were killed and 16 were injured. Two children were among the victims.
The latest attacks of the war came as Politico reported President Joe Biden had secretly approved strikes by Ukraine with US weapons on targets inside Russia.
Britain had already permitted such strikes with its Storm Shadow missiles.
Some 14 Western countries have now approved such strikes which are seen in Russia as proof of NATO being involved in the war.
Port Kavkaz is the fifth port in Russia for cargo turnover and the second port in the Black Sea-Azov basin after Novorossiys
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