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Russia Today
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Eight Western-supplied missiles shot down over Black Sea
Russian anti-aircraft defenses have repelled a large-scale Ukrainian attack, downing eight Western-supplied missiles and 170 drones across several regions, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Saturday. According to a statement posted on Telegram, Russian air defenses destroyed a total of eight Franco-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles and three Ukrainian Neptune-MD guided missiles. The Black Sea Fleet also neutralized 14 unmanned surface vessels operating in the waterway. Most of the drone activity was concentrated over Crimea, where 96 aircraft-type UAVs were intercepted, the ministry said. Another 47 were downed over Krasnodar Region, 16 over Bryansk and Kursk Regions, nine over Rostov Region, and two over Belgorod Region. Krasnodar Region Governor Veniamin Kondratiev said debris from intercepted drones damaged three apartment buildings in Novorossiysk, injuring four people, including two children. Three grain storage tanks also caught fire after being hit by falling fragments. He added that drone debris also landed in the villages of Taman, Yurovka, and Tsibanobalka near Anapa. In Rostov Region, acting Governor Yury Slyusar reported that drone wreckage ignited fires in two houses in the village of Tselina. No injuries were reported. Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz confirmed that there were no casualties or damage in his region. Officials in Crimea, Belgorod, and Kursk Regions have yet to comment on the attacks. Amid the drone attacks, traffic on the Crimean Bridge was halted for four hours. Ukrainian forces routinely target Russian territory with long-range kamikaze drones and Western-supplied missiles. On Friday, Ukraine launched a combined attack on Sevastopol, Crimea. Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said the local air defenses and naval forces successfully intercepted the strike, with no damage reported. A day earlier, a Ukrainian drone strike on the town of Aleshki in Kherson Region killed seven people and injured more than 20.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
An oil pumping station in Russia burned for a week after a drone strike. The company says it's affected shareholders.
A Russian oil pumping station was ablaze a week after a drone strike. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium accused Ukraine of a "terrorist" attack on it. It said oil transfer is halted and its shareholders are being impacted. An oil pumping station in Russia that was targeted by a suspected Ukrainian drone strike was still on fire a week later, with its parent company saying that the losses were hitting its shareholders. The Kavkazskaya pump station, in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, was struck in an overnight attack that began on March 18. The station is part of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which lists multiple oil producers among its partners, including Chevron-led Tengizchevroil. CPC said the site pumped about 1.5 million tons of crude oil in 2024. Authorities initially said that drone debris hit a pipeline, starting a 215-square-ft blaze that quickly spread. According to Russian reports, the fire expanded dramatically within a matter of days. The fire was finally extinguished on Tuesday after spreading up to 100,000 square feet, the region's governor, Veniamin Kondratiev, said. CPC accused Ukraine of a "terrorist" attack and said that, combined with an earlier strike on another pumping station, it's had a "destructive impact on the CPC financials," which will "impact all of its shareholders." The pipeline is a major oil export route for Kazakhstan, with state-owned KazMunaiGaz holding a 19% share. The Russian government, which holds 24%, is the consortium's largest shareholder. The station will not be transporting oil "in the foreseeable future," the company said. However, Sally Jones, a spokesperson for Chevron, told Business Insider in a statement that Tengizchevroil's production and export of crude oil via the CPC "remain uninterrupted." Ukraine has used strikes on Russian oil and gas infrastructure as part of its response to Russia's full-scale invasion. The latest energy infrastructure damage came amid President Donald Trump's attempts to mediate a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine. Russian reports said that the initial fire started a chain reaction involving an explosion and an oil spill that ignited, with more than 450 firefighters deployed to tackle it. NASA's satellite-powered FIRMS fire-tracking tool appeared to show that what had been a single hot spot at the site on March 19 had expanded out to three large areas as of early Tuesday. The fire was the latest in a series of attacks on CPC facilities. The consortium said that Russian air defenses repelled an overnight drone attack on the same site on Monday. Meanwhile, on February 17, CPC said a nearby pumping station, Kropotkinskaya, was attacked "by seven UAVs loaded with explosives and shrapnel," which reduced its output. Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fire at southern Russian oil depot extinguished after nearly a week, governor says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire at an oil depot in southern Russia's Krasnodar region after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack has been extinguished nearly a week after it started, region governor Veniamin Kondratiev said on Tuesday. The Kavkazskaya depot is located only a few kilometres from the Kropotkinskaya pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which was also hit by a drone last month, sparking fears of a drop in oil supplies in global markets. The depot is key for Russia's oil exports via the CPC, which mainly transports Kazakhstan's oil exports. Kondratiev said on the Telegram messaging app that two reservoirs at the facility were completely burnt out. More than 470 firefighters tackled the blaze, he added. The oil complex includes a railway loading rack and a pipeline to the Kropotkinskaya pumping station. Suppliers delivered at least 130,000 metric tons of oil per month via Kavkazskaya last year, CPC says, with volumes totalling around 1.51 million tons for the year as a whole.
Reuters
25-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Fire at southern Russian oil depot extinguished after nearly a week, governor says
MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters) - A fire at an oil depot in southern Russia's Krasnodar region after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack has been extinguished nearly a week after it started, region governor Veniamin Kondratiev said on Tuesday. The Kavkazskaya depot is located only a few kilometres from the Kropotkinskaya pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which was also hit by a drone last month, sparking fears of a drop in oil supplies in global markets. The depot is key for Russia's oil exports via the CPC, which mainly transports Kazakhstan's oil exports. Kondratiev said on the Telegram messaging app that two reservoirs at the facility were completely burnt out. More than 470 firefighters tackled the blaze, he added. The oil complex includes a railway loading rack and a pipeline to the Kropotkinskaya pumping station. Suppliers delivered at least 130,000 metric tons of oil per month via Kavkazskaya last year, CPC says, with volumes totalling around 1.51 million tons for the year as a whole.
Al Arabiya
14-03-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Russia says Ukraine hit Tuapse refinery reservoir, setting it on fire
A Ukrainian attack set ablaze a gasoline tank at Russia's Tuapse oil complex on the shores of the Black Sea, Veniamin Kondratiev, the governor of the Krasnodar region, said on Friday, while no one was hurt. As many as 121 firefighters were battling to put out the flames, Kondratiev added, without saying if the refinery was hit by a drone or missile. In recent months, Ukraine has stepped up reciprocal drone attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure. The export-oriented Tuapse plant, which has processing capacity of 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil, produces naphtha, fuel oil, vacuum gasoil, and high-sulfur diesel, mainly supplying China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Turkey.
