Drone reportedly crashes near Moscow Oblast oil depot
A fixed-wing drone was found on April 4 in a field merely 150 meters from Lukoil's Novoselki oil tank farm in Moscow Oblast, the local Baza Telegram news channel reported on April 5.
The drone's wing was torn off, and it did not detonate.
The drone may have caught its wing on trees, preventing it from reaching its target.
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FSB officers were called to the site of the drone crash, and explosives experts allegedly destroyed it in the evening of the same day.
Attacks on Russian oil refineries
Ukraine’s SBU security service has successfully attacked at least 12 oil refineries in Russia recently, Reuters reported on March 17, citing a source in the service.
This figure does not include Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) operations, which also carries out drone strikes on Russian refineries.
Russia has lost about 600,000 barrels of daily refining capacity because of Ukrainian drone strikes, Gunvor Group Ltd. CEO Torbjörn Törnqvist said.
Ukrainian intelligence and the SBU confirmed involvement in some of these attacks in a comment to NV.
Drones attacked Russia’s Kursk, Belgorod, Tula, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Bryansk, Leningrad, and Oryol oblasts overnight on March 11-12, as well as Moscow. Explosions were heard near an oil depot in Oryol, causing a fire. A Lukoil oil depot in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was also set ablaze.
Drones attacked Russia’s Voronezh, Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Leningrad, and Lipetsk oblasts overnight on March 12-13, as well as an oil refinery in Ryazan, where a serious fire broke out.
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A fire broke out at two refineries in Russia’s Samara Oblast overnight on March 15-16, which Russian media claimed to have been the result of a drone attack. Another fire was reported following a drone attak on a plant in Russia’s Slaviansk-na-Kubani, Krasnodar Krai on March 16-17.
A drone attacked an oil refinery in Saratov, Russia, on March 23, the Russian Telegram channel Astra claimed. The Kuibyshev plant in Samara caught fire following UAV attack the same day.
Two UAVs attacked the Elaz-Nefteprodukt oil refinery and a Shahed drone manufacturing plant in Yelabuga, Tatarstan on April 2.
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