In the latest overnight bombardment by Ukraine, the country’s drones attacked two oil and lubricant production facilities deep inside Russia.
Knewz.com has learned that the unmanned aircraft struck the targets—both of which were more than 200 miles inside behind enemy lines.
The attacks caused fires and damage to a warehouse of the Tambovnefteprodukt plant in the Tambov Oblast, and the Enemskaya oil depot of LUKOIL-Yugnefteprodukt in Russia’s Adygea Republic of the northern Caucasus.
Speaking to the Kyiv Post, an unnamed Ukrainian military source said:
“The SBU’s [The Security Service of Ukraine] strikes on companies that work for the Russian military-industrial complex reduce the resources the enemy can use to wage war and force the aggressor country to spend money on restoring its infrastructure.”
“This is an additional burden on the Russian budget, which is already burdened by sanctions and other economic challenges. The service will continue to work in this [sector],” the source said.
Another Ukrainian news outlet, Oboz, claimed: “It is known that at the affected facilities the Russians processed and stored raw materials and finished products, which were subsequently used for the needs of the Russian army.”
Oboz cited claims by Ukraine’s SBU, that it had executed close to 36 successful attacks on Russian oil facilities to date and noted the governor of the Tambov region, Maxim Egorov, admitted to one of the attacks.
Egorov was quoted saying: “This morning there was a bang and a tank fire on the territory of the Platonovskaya oil depot in the Rasskazovsky municipal district of the Tambov region. The incident was probably caused by a UAV. There were no injuries.”
Russia’s Ministry of Defence acknowledged an incursion of 15 drones but made no mention of actual strikes.
Its official Telegram page stated: “Air defense duty systems intercepted and destroyed six UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Adygea, three UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region, three UAVs over the territory of the Krasnodar region, one UAV over the territory of the Rostov region, one UAV over the territory of the Belgorod region, and one UAV over the territory of the Oryol region.”
These developments come in the wake of the Russian President’s visits to two old allies in Asia. His first stop was in North Korea where he and Kim Jong Un made a show of their friendship.
By the time Vladimir Putin left the pariah state, claims that the two nations had signed a NATO-esque security pact surfaced, alleging that one would come to the other’s aid in the event of an attack by an external military force.
Thereafter, Putin made a stopover in Vietnam where he was given the same red-carpet treatment he received in North Korea.
The single-party authoritarian government’s leader, To Lam, lauded the Russian autocrat saying “Congratulations to our comrade for receiving overwhelming support during the recent presidential election, underlining the confidence of the Russian people,” per BBC News.
The visit is Putin’s fifth to Vietnam as a head of state and was conducted to ramp up cooperation between the two countries.
As a testimony to the latter, Putin telegraphed that he was eager to partner with the country in the energy and security sectors.
Putin was quoted by Reuters, saying: “We will also increase the efficiency of cooperation on these projects in the energy and gas sectors in order to create favorable conditions for the work of our companies.”
Experts on Russia see Putin’s tour of Asia as a message to the rest of the world.
“Russia is signaling that it is not isolated in Asia despite the Ukraine war, and Vietnam is reinforcing a key traditional relationship even as it also diversifies ties with newer partners,” said an expert on the matter, Prashanth Parameswaran from the Congress-chartered think tank, the Wilson Center (via Associated Press).
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