Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said on Monday that its drones struck four oil depots in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai overnight, while President Volodymyr Zelensky reported additional Ukrainian strikes on defense plants and other military-related targets across Russia.
The SBU said drones operated by its Alpha Special Operations Center hit the Edelweiss-95 and Din-Yug-Oil depots in the stanitsa of Novotytarivska, where two separate fires were reported.
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Another strike targeted the Lukoil-Yugnefteprodukt oil depot in the stanitsa of Pavlovska, where the SBU said a fire was still burning.
The fourth reported target was the Angelinska oil depot in the stanitsa of Staronyzhestebliivska, where another fire was reported.
The SBU said the facilities are part of Russia’s fuel infrastructure and that disabling them could complicate fuel supplies for Russian forces.
Russian outlet Astra also reported that the Edelweiss-95 oil depot in Novotitarovskaya, Krasnodar Krai, caught fire following the drone attack.
According to Astra’s analysis of eyewitness accounts and information about the company’s employees, the facility was identified as the Edelweiss-95 oil depot. The company specializes in wholesale supplies of diesel fuel and gasoline, including AI-92, AI-95, and AI-100 grades.
The depot has a reported storage capacity of 4,500 cubic meters (159,000 cubic feet) and its own railway spur for receiving and shipping fuel.
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According to the company’s website, Edelweiss-95 has operated in the fuel market for 30 years and purchases petroleum products directly from major Russian refineries.
“The SBU continues to strike targets in the Russian rear that support the war against Ukraine,” the SBU said, describing the strikes as a response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure.
Zelensky reports strikes on defense plants
Zelensky said Ukrainian forces also used long-range capabilities against two defense plants in Russia’s Tula and Voronezh regions.
“We are consistently responding to Russian strikes against life with our own long-range capabilities. Last night, we deployed our long-range ‘sanctions’ against two defense plants – in the Tula and Voronezh regions,” Zelensky said in a Telegram statement.
He also confirmed that SBU units had struck Russian oil facilities in Krasnodar Krai.
According to Zelensky, Ukrainian forces also targeted facilities in the Kaluga and Oryol regions that Russia uses for drone attacks against Ukraine. In the Bryansk region, he said, operations targeted Russian forces directly.
He also reported that a target in the Black Sea had been hit, without providing further details.
“Russia must stop the escalation,” he added.
Russia reports 254 drones overnight
Russia’s defense ministry said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 254 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones between 8 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday and 8 a.m. on Monday.
The ministry said the drones were detected over Belgorod, Bryansk, Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Kursk, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov, Ryazan, Oryol, and Rostov oblasts, as well as the Moscow Region, Krasnodar Krai, occupied Crimea, and the waters of the Azov and Black seas.
Russian officials also reported damage and casualties in several regions.
Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev said four people, including three children, were injured in the region and that a house and three garages were destroyed by fire.
In the Bryansk region, acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said part of a railway bridge collapsed and 10 rail cars derailed on the Dyatkovo-Lyudinovo line. He also reported the derailment of 18 empty semi-trailers in the Unechsky district.
No injuries were reported in the railway incidents, according to Russian officials.