Urooj NazirMoscow According to the government, media outlets, and other sources, Ukraine used missiles to hit a Russian port in the Azov Sea in the south and used drones to set fire to an oil store in the western Bryansk region.
Although Russia has frequently warned that Ukraine’s employment of U.S. ATACMS missiles over the border signals direct Western involvement and runs the risk of starting a larger war, it was unclear how much damage was caused and what weapons were used in the port strike.
According to Kyiv, it strikes Russian energy facilities in revenge for attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure that have caused blackouts, crippled distribution, and the loss of around half of Ukraine’s available generating capacity during the conflict.
According to Russia’s defense ministry, air defense units shot down 14 Ukrainian drones over the Ukrainian border city of Bryansk overnight.
Alexander Bogomaz, the regional governor, reported on Telegram that an unidentified production site had momentarily caught fire.
While Russian independent media ASTRA reported that a refinery had been hit and that flames were jumping into the air, Ukraine’s military claimed it was responsible for a large fire at an oil facility.
Bryansk is traversed by the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS), which leads to the Baltic Sea, and the Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline, which transports oil from Western Siberia and the Caspian Sea to Europe.
The Druzhba pipeline was unharmed, according to Kazakhstan pipeline operator Kaztransoil. It quoted Russian officials as saying there were no dangers to oil supplies coming from Kazakhstan and that an industrial site caught fire.
Along with the 1.358 million tons of oil it sent earlier this year, Kazakhstan intends to send another 130,000 metric tons (31,000 barrels per day) to Germany through Druzhba in December.
According to a Ukrainian industry source, oil flow across Ukraine to Europe was unaffected by the midnight attack on a depot in Bryansk.
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According to Yuri Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov area, Ukrainian missiles struck Taganrog port some 750 kilometers (465 miles) to the south, causing damage to 14 automobiles and an industrial site.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed, millions have been displaced, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has caused the worst crisis in Moscow-West relations since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
With Moscow’s forces moving at their quickest rate since the first few weeks of the war and the West wondering how it will finish, the war is about to enter what some Russian and Western officials think could be its last and most dangerous phase.
Utilizing fresh authorization from departing U.S. President Joe Biden, Ukraine launched an attack against Russia in November using U.S. ATACMS missiles.
A few days later, the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was struck by a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile fired by Russia. Russia has now claimed to have shot down at least 15 ATACMS missiles.
Svetlana Kambulova, the city’s leader, said on Telegram that police had sealed off the damaged section of Taganrog, a city of roughly a quarter of a million people on Russia’s Black Sea coast near the Ukrainian border.
According to Kambulova, the attack caused partial damage to a boiler building, which resulted in the loss of heat in 27 residential complexes.
According to military analysts, Russia’s air force uses an air base close to the city to launch attacks on Ukraine using bombers, drones, and other weaponry.
