Ukraine continues attack on Russian oil infrastructure as Kiev prepares for more attacks

Ukrainian drone strikes set fires at more Russian oil facilities overnight Saturday, local Russian officials said, in what appeared to be the latest. attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry.

Authorities in Russia’s Rostov region said falling drone debris caused a fire that damaged an oil depot and a tanker in the port of Taganrog, while officials in the neighboring Krasnodar region reported a fire that broke out at an oil depot in Armavir for the same reason. “Another facility of the Russian oil industry has been reached – Armavir,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday X about the attack in the Krasnodar region, noting that Armavir is “500 kilometers from our state border.” “We are rightfully taking the war back to where it came from,” he wrote.

Ukraine has expanded its medium- and long-range strike capabilities, deploying drone and missile technology that it was developed internally to fight The 4-year occupation of Russia. Attacks on Russian oil assets that play a key role in financing the invasion have become almost daily.

For its part, Russia has used its long-range ballistic missiles to inflict damage Energy grid of Ukraine and hammer cities. The Ukrainian capital is bracing for further heavy bombardment after what the Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier this week would be future “systemic attacks” on Kiev. Zelenskyy said Thursday that he is “very persistent” in pressuring the United States to provide his country with more Patriot air defense missiles that can counter devastating Russian ballistic missile attacks. The attacks on Russian oil infrastructure came a day after a Russian drone that was part of an attack on Ukraine went missing and hit an apartment building in eastern Romaniainjuring two people in a NATO member country. The incursion added to concerns that the war could spread beyond the alliance’s borders and drew strong condemnation across Europe.