Ukraine's Secret Service reveals number of strike targeting Russian oil refineries and pipelines

Published connected 01/11/2025 - 14:43 GMT+1 •Updated 15:06

Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) revealed its latest attacks connected Saturday targeting Russian lipid infrastructure, from refineries to pipelines, arsenic Kyiv looks to intensify its counteroffensives against nan assemblage it says costs nan Kremlin's invasion.

The attacks are portion of nan Ukrainian army's maneuver of "bringing nan warfare location to mean Russians", without endangering civilian lives.

It intends to target sectors and industries which would impact mean Russian civilians, specified arsenic nan power utilized to powerfulness and power their homes, aliases disrupting formation operations astatine airports via utilizing drones.

It is an effort to incite unit from wrong against Russian President Vladimir Putin to prosecute successful bid talks and extremity his full-scale penetration of Ukraine, good into its 4th year.

Following an cognition carried retired connected Friday by nan HUR of nan Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, 3 sections of nan Koltsevoye lipid pipeline successful nan Moscow superior region, "which supplied nan Russian business army", were destroyed, nan Ukrainian typical services reported successful an charismatic statement.

"The anti-drone instrumentality and nan "protection" of nan force installation by paramilitary guards proved ineffective: nan 3 sections done which nan attacker was transporting petrol, diesel and paraffin exploded simultaneously and successfully; nan pipeline was put retired of service," said nan statement.

The main Koltsevoye pipeline is 400 kilometres long. The substance transported by this pipeline comes from refineries crossed various regions, including Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.

The Koltsevoye pipeline is responsible for pumping up to 3 cardinal tonnes of paraffin, 2.8 cardinal tonnes of diesel and astir 1.6 cardinal tonnes of petrol annually, making it 1 of nan Kremlin's largest and astir integral power transportation infrastructure.

Ukrainian drones engulf Moscow

Kyiv is continuing to motorboat barrages of drones some for violative and disruptive missions into Russia.

The Russian Defence Ministry said that its aerial defence systems intercepted and destroyed 98 Ukrainian drones complete Russian territory precocious connected Friday.

According to nan ministry, nan mostly of them - 45 drones - were changeable down complete nan Belgorod region bordering Ukraine. But Ukrainian attacks were besides carried retired successful nan regions of Samara, Moscow, Tula and elsewhere.

The politician of nan occidental Russian Tula region, Dmitry Milyaev, announced that a drone had fallen successful Tula without causing immoderate injuries aliases worldly damage.

Russia launches much than 200 drones

Russian attacks are besides continuing to pummel Ukraine arsenic Moscow continues to onslaught its neighbour daily, resisting world calls, championed by US President Donald Trump, to halt attacks and travel to nan negotiating array to agent an contiguous and lasting peace.

Ukrainian aerial defence units opportunity astatine slightest 223 drones were launched into Ukraine overnight into Saturday, pinch astir 140 of them Iranian-made Shahed onslaught drones. A number of missiles, including ballistic missiles, were besides fired into Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces added that they were capable to successfully thwart 206 of them aerially earlier reaching their targets. 17 drones did nevertheless onslaught their targets crossed 7 regions, according to nan Ukrainian aerial force.

At slightest 1 personification was killed and much than a twelve others were injured, successful a Russian rocket onslaught connected Mykolaiv, according to Vitaly Kim, caput of nan location subject administration. Among nan injured was a child, who sustained mean wounds and is being treated by aesculapian professionals.

Initial reports propose that nan onslaught was carried retired by an Iskander ballistic rocket equipped pinch a cluster munition warhead. The onslaught caused harm to a petrol position and civilian vehicles.