SSU Drones Hit Russian Oil Platform in the Caspian Sea for the First Time, Halting Production

Long-range SSU drones have, for the first time, struck a Russian oil production platform in the Caspian Sea and shut it down.

Ukrinform reported this, citing sources within the Ukrainian security service.

The target was the Filanovsky oil platform, owned by the company Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft.

According to the sources, operators of the Alfa Special Operations Center executed the operation.

“At least four hits on the offshore platform were recorded. As a result of the attack, oil and gas extraction from more than 20 wells serviced by the platform has stopped,” the SSU source said.

This is the first strike on Russian oil infrastructure facilities in the Caspian Sea since the start of the full-scale war.

The Filanovsky field is one of the largest discovered in Russia and in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea. Its reserves are estimated at 129 million tonnes of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of gas. The extracted resources were exported through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.