Ukrainian Armed Forces Strike at Two Russian Energy Infrastructure Facilities

Missile troops and the 14th Regiment of Unmanned Systems struck a main oil pipeline station and a facility for the supply of oil products from Belarus.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the damage to the facilities.

On the night of September 23, units of Missile Forces and Artillery along with the Unmanned Systems Forces hit the 8-N line-production dispatch station near the village of Naitopovichi in the Bryansk region.

The General Staff reported a confirmed hit on the pumping and compressor station, followed by a fire in the area. However, no photo or video evidence of the strikes was provided.

“The facility is of strategic importance for the transportation of oil products from Belarusian refineries to Russia and the supply of oil products to the Russian occupation army,” Robert Brovdi, the commander of the USF, said in his report.

It is worth noting that the Unmanned Systems Forces have already struck the 8-H station in Naytopovychi in late August. At that time, a large-scale fire broke out on the territory of the facility as a result of explosions.

Also that night, the operators of the 14th Regiment of the USF repeatedly hit the Samara line-production dispatch station near the village of Prosvet in the Samara region.

This facility mixes high and low sulfur oil from different fields to form the export grade Urals.

The Samara region’s Line operations control station is connected to the Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk trunk line and other branches that supply oil to the region and to export routes (ports and further oil pipeline branches).

Knocking out Russia’s oil infrastructure

Two weeks earlier, the same unit attacked the Vtorovo oil pumping station in the Vladimir region.

From the published images, it became known that the drones damaged the tanks used to store oil products and maintain a stable pressure in the oil product pipeline.

It is known that the Vtorovo station provided diesel fuel supplies in the region and in the direction of the Moscow Ring Oil Pipeline.