Ukraine strikes Samara oil hub in major drone attack on Russia

Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 15 Nov, 12:26 · Archive

Ukraine has attacked the Samara oil station, a key hub in Russia's oil export network, firing nearly 1,200 drones in one of its largest aerial assaults since the war began.

Ukraine has launched one of its biggest drone attacks since the war began, firing nearly 1,200 drones in a major aerial assault on Russian infrastructure. The strikes hit the Samara linear production and dispatch station near the village of Prosvet, causing massive fires in several oil storage reservoirs. Ukrainian military chiefs describe the facility as the operational heart of Russia's oil export network, receiving crude oil through pipelines from Tatarstan, Western Siberia and other regions before blending it into Urals oil.

Urals crude accounts for up to half of all Russian oil exports. Ukraine's General Staff stated that damage to storage tanks at Samara directly strikes at Russia's main source of funding for its military operations. The same attack also hit the Lipetsk-2 military airbase, damaging buildings and igniting oil storage tanks.

This continues a pattern of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian military and fuel infrastructure. Earlier this week, Ukraine struck the Kirishi Oil Refinery in Leningrad region near St Petersburg. Other recent targets have included the Kamensky missile manufacturing plant in Rostov region and the Kstovo facility in Nizhny Novgorod region, both of which showed multiple fires.

How it is being reported

• Ukrainian drones strike Russia's petrochemical capital in overnight assaultRussian officials confirmed Sunday that the central industrial city of Nizhnekamsk had endured "prolonged" Ukrainian airstrikes overnight, damaging a residential building and sparking a fire at a major petrochemical complex, injuring three people. Separate overnight strikes on Taganrog city killed an electricity substation engineer, according to the regional governor.France 24 · 15 Nov, 13:36
• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv drone strike sparks fire at Russia petrochemical plantThe Ukrainian attacks hit a defence and aviation manufacturing plant in the western Bryansk regionIndependent World · 15 Nov, 11:55
• Major Russian oil hub burns as Ukraine launches blitz on 'heart of Putin's petrol network'Ukraine has launched one of its most devastating drone attacks on Russia with the Samara station, seen as the operational heart of Russia's oil export network, hit, says military chiefs in KyivThe Mirror · 14 Nov, 13:04

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