The drones of the Security Service of Ukraine attacked the Novovelychkovskaya oil pumping station in the Krasnodar region.

Sources of the Ukrainska Pravda media outlet stated that the station’s operation was suspended.

The SSU drone attack took place on February 20. The Novovelychkovskaya oil pumping station is one of the key ones for oil transportation in the Kuban area.

It supplies oil to the Afip and Ilya refineries.

The drone strike hit the 110/35/10 kV power substation that supplies the station.

The substation caught fire, causing a complete blackout and an emergency shutdown of the oil pumping process.

The Russians are currently establishing the amount of damage.

This is the eighth successful SSU special operation since the beginning of the year in destroying Russian oil refining and oil pumping facilities.

“Each such ‘bavovna’ (ed. cotton) brings multimillion-dollar losses to the Russian Federation and complicates the supply of fuel to the Russian army,” a source in the Defense Forces said.

Over the past year, Ukrainian drones attacked oil refineries and fuel bases at least 81 times in Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Oil facilities in the southern regions of Russia were most often targeted. In 2024, according to available statistics, the production of gasoline and diesel in Russia decreased, and fuel prices increased. Drone attacks and sanctions led to the idling of 41.1 million tons of capacity, which is more than 12% of the total in Russia. The volume of oil refining in 2024 fell to its lowest level in 12 years.

As a reminder, on February 19, strike drones attacked an oil refinery in Syzran, causing a fire at the facility.