Satellite Images: Strike on Unecha Station Wrecks Two Pumping Stations of Druzhba Oil Pipeline

New high-resolution satellite images have revealed the destruction of two pumping stations of the Druzhba oil pipeline at the Unecha production and dispatch station in the Bryansk region.

The Dnipro Osint (Garbuz) Telegram channel published the satellite images.

According to the latest images, as a result of the Ukrainian attack and the subsequent fire, two pumping stations were destroyed, along with a small technical building and nearby technological equipment.

Unecha is one of the key stations of the Druzhba pipeline, which stretches 5,500 kilometers.

The station is owned by the Transneft state-controlled company, which handles the servicing and transportation of oil and petroleum products within Russia and abroad. It has a capacity to pump 60 million tons of oil annually.

Unecha plays a crucial role in transporting Russian oil to the port of Ust-Luga, which handles a significant portion of Russia’s oil exports, as well as in supplying oil to the Belarusian refinery in Mozyr.

The station is located in the settlement of Vysokoye in the Unechsky district, approximately 60 km from the Ukrainian border. According to local reports, the latest strike occurred on August 12th at around 10:00 p.m.

The fire at the Unecha station has also been confirmed by NASA satellite data, which recorded the fire’s epicenter. According to this data, the fire started at 10:30 p.m., and new hotspots were detected at 3:00 a.m. and 4:24 a.m.

The exact nature of the strike remains unknown, but local authorities reported a “massive combined strike using HIMARS rockets and drones.”

This attack was at least the third on this station in 2025. According to the publication Astra, a drone had already struck the station on August 6th, causing a fire.

At that time, NASA Firms’ fire monitoring service did not detect any abnormal temperature increases, likely due to the small scale of the fire.

In March 2025, the CyberBoroshno community, using satellite images, discovered that the Vysokoye substation, located at the Unecha station and responsible for its entire power supply, had also been hit.