drone debris – A Ukrainian drone attack overnight sparked a fire at an oil terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia’s Krasnodar region, injuring two people, officials said. The strike targeted the Sheskharis terminal and depot, according to an outlet in Russia. The incident came as
Smoke rose over an oil terminal in Novorossiysk after falling drone debris sparked a fire overnight, Russian local officials said Saturday, injuring two people.
Authorities in the city of Novorossiysk said they could not yet name the facility. But an outlet in Russia reported that the strike hit the Sheskharis oil terminal and depot—described as the terminus for Transneft’s main oil pipelines in the region. with Transneft a state-controlled pipeline company.
Images posted by that outlet appeared to show smoke above the terminal, though they could not be verified. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the attack.
The strike landed in a pattern that has become familiar over the past four years: attacks on Russian oil assets that help generate revenue tied to the invasion. Ukraine has expanded its mid- and long-range strike capabilities using drone and missile technology it has developed domestically. and attacks on oil infrastructure have occurred with increasing frequency.
The same night also carried grim consequences for civilians in Ukraine. Moscow-installed officials said the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike overnight into Friday on a college dormitory building in Starobilsk, a city in Ukraine’s Russia-occupied Luhansk region, rose to 11.
Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the attack on the dormitory as a “crime” on Friday and ordered the military to submit its proposals for retaliation. He said there were no military or law enforcement facilities near the college.
At a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting on the dormitory strike—held at Russia’s request—Ukraine’s Ambassador Melnyk Andrii denied his Russian counterpart’s accusations of war crimes. He called them a “pure propaganda show” and said the May 22 operations “exclusively targeted the Russian war machine.”.
The oil-terminal fire in Novorossiysk and the fatalities in Starobilsk unfolded with little room for doubt: each side is publicly tying its next move to the last strike. even as officials on the ground report the human cost in real time—burning fuel infrastructure on one end. shattered housing on the other.
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So it was just “drone debris” that caught fire? Sounds like somebody’s lying.
I’m confused… they say Ukraine targeted an oil terminal but then can’t name the facility. Like how do you not know which one it is? Either way, two injured is awful.
This always turns into the same thing. Putin says no military stuff was near the dorm, right? Yet it’s always “war machine” this and “propaganda” that. U.N. meeting is basically theater.
Wait, did the drone actually hit the Sheskharis terminal or was it just debris from somewhere else? And why is Transneft mentioned like that means the whole thing is automatic targets? I dunno, I saw a clip online with smoke and everyone was like “Ukraine did it” so I assumed that was it.