Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Slavyansk-EKO oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai and the Taneco refinery in Tatarstan, along with a drone storage site used by Russian troops in Millerovo.
Overnight on September 13, units of Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Slavyansk-EKO oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Krai, and the Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. Both strikes ignited fires at the facilities. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows the Defense Forces' campaign, which is steadily eroding Russia's ability to fund its war through oil revenues.
Slavyansk-EKO is one of the largest independent oil refineries in southern Russia, with a capacity of about 5.2 million tonnes of crude a year; according to Ukraine's General Staff, the strike damaged a key processing unit and the facility's storage tank farm. In Nizhnekamsk, the target was Taneco, owned by Tatneft and one of Russia's largest oil refining and petrochemical plants, where a fire broke out in one of the storage tanks. Ukraine's military intelligence and General Staff both confirmed the strikes. Volunteers Support Ukraine stresses that every such strike chips away at Russia's ability to fund missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Alongside the refineries, Ukrainian forces also struck a site in Millerovo, Rostov Oblast, that Russian troops used for storing, preparing and launching strike drones. Local residents reported several fires burning at the facility. Volunteers Support Ukraine notes that strikes like this on drone logistics directly reduce the scale of nightly attacks on Ukrainian cities and villages.
These strikes are part of a sustained campaign by Ukraine's Defense Forces against Russian oil and military infrastructure that has continued for several months. Volunteers Support Ukraine believes that systematically weakening the aggressor's military-industrial capacity is a necessary condition for bringing peace closer, and keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow.
As usual, Russian officials have not commented on the scale of the damage.
