Two Oil Pumping Stations Ignite in Russia’s Volgograd Region

Two oil pumping stations caught fire overnight in Russia’s Volgograd region.

This was confirmed by data from NASA’s satellite fire monitoring system, as reported by the Krymsky Veter (Crimean Wind) Telegram channel.

On the night of September 24, a fire erupted at the Zenzevatka station, located near the settlement of the same name.

On the territory of the oil pumping station is the tank farm of the Russian company Transneft.

Satellites also detected a fire at the Kuzmichi-1 oil pumping station during the night, on the same Kuibyshev – Tikhoretsk pipeline as the Zenzevatka oil pumping station.

The data on the fires may indicate new strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on important facilities of the Russian oil industry.

As for the Zenzivatka oil pumping station, it was attacked by drones of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine just recently, on September 20.

On the night of September 20, the Ukrainian Defense Forces also struck the Saratov and Novokuybyshevsk oil refineries in Russia. Fires broke out at both facilities.

A few days earlier, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces carried out an attack on the Russian Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka oil refinary in the Volgograd region, which led to its shutdown.

Specialized Russian monitoring resources confirmed the attack, reporting the arrival of at least 11 long-range drones on the night of September 18. However, local residents posted no footage showing fire or smoke at the refinery on social media.

On the night of September 23, units of the missile forces and artillery, along with the Unmanned Systems Forces, struck the 8-N linear production dispatching station near the settlement of Naytopovichi in the Bryansk region.

Also that night, operators of the 14th Regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck the Samara linear production dispatching station near the settlement of Prosvet in the Samara region again.