Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Oil Depots and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant, Moscow Says
Overnight strikes damaged oil facilities in Taganrog and Armavir. A separate drone hit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, leaving a hole in a turbine hall but no damage to key equipment.
thehindu.comUkrainian drone strikes caused fires at Russian oil facilities overnight into Saturday, Russian officials said. Authorities in Russia’s Rostov region said falling drone debris sparked a fire that damaged an oil depot and tanker in the port of Taganrog. Officials in the neighboring Krasnodar region reported a fire breaking out at an oil depot in Armavir for the same reason.
Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom said Saturday that a Ukrainian drone struck the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev said the attack left a hole in the wall of a turbine hall. There was no damage to key equipment, Likhachev said.
The plant is in an area under Russian control since early in Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is not in service. It needs reliable power to cool its six shutdown reactors and spent fuel. The International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly expressed alarm about the nuclear plant, Europe’s biggest.
Ukraine did not immediately comment on the Zaporizhzhia incident. Ukraine has expanded its mid- and long-range strike capabilities using drone and missile technology developed domestically. Attacks on Russian oil assets have become almost daily occurrences.
Russia has used long-range ballistic missiles to damage Ukraine’s power grid and hammer its cities. The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that “systemic strikes” on Kyiv would be upcoming. Zelenskyy said Thursday that he is being “very persistent” in pressing the United States to provide more Patriot air defense missiles.
The attacks on Russian oil infrastructure came a day after a Russian drone that was part of an attack on Ukraine struck an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people. Ukraine keeps up assault on Russian oil sites as Kyiv expects more strikes.
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