Burn, Baby, Burn
“Four oil tanks have been hit in Klintsy, Russia, by drones last night. The fire is still raging. Nearby houses have been evacuated.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1748288201460953214
“Ukraine Targets Russian Oil Plants, Aiming to Disrupt Military Operations”
“Kyiv hit an oil depot on Friday, the latest in recent attacks on such facilities as it seeks to inflict damage away from the largely deadlocked front line.”
“Ukraine hit an oil depot in Russia in a drone attack on Friday, officials on both sides said, the latest in a series of recent assaults targeting Russian oil facilities as Kyiv increasingly seeks to strike critical infrastructure behind Russian lines.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Russian region of Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, said oil tanks in the town of Klintsy had caught fire after a drone dropped munitions on the depot. The drone, he added, was brought down by electronic jamming. A Ukrainian intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, said Ukraine was behind the assault.
Friday’s attack was the fourth on a Russian oil facility in the past three weeks, in what experts say is an effort by Ukraine to deliver setbacks to Russia’s military capabilities by targeting the facilities that supply fuel to tanks, fighter jets and other critical military equipment.”
“OPINION: Where is General Gerasimov and Why Does it Matter?”
“After a series of Ukrainian missile strikes in Crimea, the continued silence from the Kremlin is potentially telling. Is Putin worried that Kyiv is actively targeting his high command?”
“It has been a week since Ukraine conducted two deep fire missile strikes against Russian targets in Crimea on January 5th. British Storm Shadow and French SCALP cruise missiles were used to strike a command post near Sevastopol and a radar station in Uyutne near the coastal western city of Yevpatoria.
Visegrád 24 reported shortly afterwards that 23 Russian troops were killed in the Ukrainian attack on the Russian airbase in Saky, Crimea. Nine were purported to be special forces – and five “high-ranking commanders.”
Soon thereafter rumors quickly began circulating that one of those high-ranking commanders was Russian General Valery Gerasimov. WarVehicleTracker tweeted an image from the Telegram channel known as “Ordinary Tsarism” that suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s theater commander had been “in a command post near Sevastopol at the time of the attack.””
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/26706
And, of course, no one was injured.
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This has been reported by many sources on X with videos of the fires.
The strike of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal has not been reported and there have been no videos.
Russian sources report that overnight a drone fell and exploded on the territory of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal oil and gas company. No damage was allegedly inflicted.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1747876445894983831
