Ukrainian drones attack oil depot in Russia used by Moscow's air force

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8 January 2025 at 5:06 am·1-min read

The governor of the Saratov region Roman Busargin, second right, speaks to firefighters and rescuers at the industrial side damaged after Ukrainian drones' attack in Saratov, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.

The Ukrainian military on Wednesday said that its forces had hit a Russian oil depot located hundreds of kilometres inside Russia. Kyiv has said it aims to erode Russian energy revenues that are used to fund the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine on Wednesday said that its forces had hit a Russian oil depot that services Moscow’s air force hundreds of kilometres from the warring countries’ shared border.

The apparent attack is the latest in a series of escalating cross border strikes by Moscow and Kyiv targeting energy and military facilities, almost three years after the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine.

“Ukrainian defence forces hit Russian oil depot in Engels” in the Saratov region, the Ukrainian general staff said in a statement on social media.

“It should be noted that this oil depot provided fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield, where enemy strategic aviation is based,” the general staff added.

Russian officials acknowledged in earlier statements that Ukraine had attacked the region with unmanned aerial vehicles.

The defence ministry said its air defence systems had downed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 11 over the Saratov region.

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