During the offensive Operation “Vivaldi”, fighters of the Third Army Corps destroyed a pipeline that supplied about 50% of the Russian forces’ daily diesel fuel needs in Luhansk Region.
An intelligence officer from the headquarters of the Third Army Corps said this on air on Radio NV.
According to the serviceman, this was a pipeline used to transport finished diesel fuel directly. It ran from Voronezh Region to the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Region.
“This is a pipeline that pumps a finished product directly — diesel fuel. It ran from Voronezh Region to temporarily occupied Luhansk Region and supplied about 50% of the enemy’s daily diesel fuel needs,” the officer said.
He said the military had been tasked with stopping the pipeline from operating.
Fighters of the Third Army Corps carried out precision strikes on the initial and final fuel intake points, as well as directly on Russian fuel tankers.
This, the servicemen said, forced the Russians to completely halt the facility’s operation.
The destruction of the pipeline complicated the logistics of Russia’s “West” group of forces. Russian refuelling vehicles are now forced to travel about 400 km directly to Russian territory to obtain fuel.
The commander of the Third Army Corps, Brigadier General Andriy Biletskyy, had previously also reported cutting Russian forces’ logistics lines when summing up the first season of Operation “Vivaldi”.
“Another important task was to cut the enemy’s logistics. As a result of our actions, the enemy was forced to move supplies of fuels and lubricants beyond the state border — to Voronezh Region,” Biletskyy noted.
According to the intelligence officer, due to fuel shortages, Russian units on the front line are having problems supplying generators needed to charge drone batteries.
He also said Russian electronic warfare systems are operating in a limited mode.
“This has greatly complicated supplies to front-line units, and combined with strikes on field depots at the grouping and army level in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Region, we were able to have a critical impact on the enemy, thereby creating a crisis directly on the front line,” the intelligence officer added.
- As part of the second season of the offensive Operation “Vivaldi”, the Third Army Corps liberated the villages of Shandryholove and Derylove in Donetsk Region and established full control over Drobyshcheve. In total, 125 sq km of territory was returned to Ukrainian control, with 50 sq km de-occupied.