UAVs Strike Oil Pumping Station Tanks Near Yaroslavl

Ukrainian drones struck the storage tanks of an oil pumping station near the Russian city of Yaroslavl.

Regional Governor Mikhail Evrayev confirmed the strike, which took place overnight.

Following the attack, a fire broke out at the facility, with eyewitnesses sharing videos and photos on social media.

According to Exilenova+, the target was the Yaroslavl-3 oil pumping station, a key hub of the Surgut–Polotsk pipeline, which transports oil from Siberia and northern Russia to the Baltic ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga, as well as to Belarus.

The governor stated that the Yaroslavl region had been under a massive drone attack since after 3 a.m.

“Today, the region was subjected to a massive attack by Ukrainian UAVs. Most of the drones were shot down, but there were strikes on industrial fuel storage facilities,” he wrote on Telegram.

The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had already attacked this oil pumping station on May 18. The following day, the General Staff confirmed the strike.

The Yaroslavl-3 Oil Pumping Station is located more than 800 kilometers from Ukraine’s border. It is part of the structure of the Russian state-owned company Transneft.

The Special Operations Forces emphasized that strikes on Russia’s oil refining and logistics infrastructure reduce its economic capacity to wage war against Ukraine.

Strike on the oil refinery

On the night of May 29, the Ukrainian Defense Forces also struck the Russian oil refinery Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotkain in Volgograd using drones.

The oil refinery has an annual processing capacity of 14.8 million tons of petroleum products. It specializes in deep crude oil refining and produces gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fuel oil, bitumen, and other petroleum products.

The plant is one of the largest petroleum product producers in Russia’s Southern Federal District.