On the night of 25 August, units of Ukraine’s Defence Forces struck facilities at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai.
As the General Staff’s press service reported, a fire on the company’s premises has been confirmed. Ukraine’s military intelligence said that reconnaissance UAV operators, as part of a deep-strike operation jointly with other components of Ukraine’s Defence Forces, once again hit this refinery.
Loud explosions and flames from fires were recorded on the plant’s territory. The extent of the damage is being clarified.
The Afipsky refinery is one of the major oil-processing enterprises in Krasnodar Krai. Its design capacity is 6.25 million tonnes of oil per year. The plant produces, among other things, diesel, petrol components, and is involved in supplying the Russian occupying army.
And on the night of 24 August, strikes on two U-272 gas separation units at the Astrakhan gas processing plant were confirmed.
This is a major enterprise in Russia’s gas-processing industry and part of the Gazprom system. Its design capacity is up to 12 billion m³ of gas per year and about 7.3 million tonnes of gas condensate per year. The plant produces marketable natural gas, stabilised gas condensate, petrols, diesel fuel, fuel oil, liquefied hydrocarbon gases and technical sulphur.
Products from the Astrakhan gas processing plant are used to supply Russia’s armed forces, and technical sulphur is used in the manufacture of explosives.
Work against the enemy’s key facilities continues, the General Staff said.