{"id":736161,"date":"2026-06-14T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T14:39:10","slug":"zelensky-confirms-deep-strikes-on-russian-temp-fuel-reserve-and-azot-chemical-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736161\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Confirms Deep Strikes on Russian \u2018Temp\u2019 Fuel Reserve and \u2018Azot\u2019 Chemical Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> has confirmed<\/a> on Telegram a wave of deep-strike drone operations targeting Russian<\/a> military-industrial infrastructure overnight June 13-14.<\/p>\n

Executed by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU<\/a>), the strikes hit fuel and chemical assets hundreds of kilometers behind enemy lines.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLong-range sanctions\u201d <\/p>\n

In a statement released on social media, President Zelensky praised the military\u2019s expanding reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are good results from our warriors in applying long-range sanctions against important targets on the territory of Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,\u201d Zelensky wrote. \u201cMore than 700 kilometers from our state border.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president detailed that the coordinated overnight assault achieved direct hits on two primary targets essential to the Russian war machine: the \u201cTemp\u201d oil depot and the \u201cAzot\u201d chemical plant.<\/p>\n

The widespread drone wave caused disruptions across Russia, triggering air raid alerts in 28 regions and forcing civil aviation authorities to restrict air traffic at six airports.<\/p>\n

Striking the \u201cTemp\u201d state reserve <\/p>\n

Operators from the SBU\u2019s elite \u201cAlpha\u201d Special Operations Center guided<\/a> loitering munitions into the Rosrezerv \u201cTemp\u201d oil depot, located in the city of Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region).<\/p>\n

Integrated directly into Russia\u2019s state material reserve system, the \u201cTemp\u201d facility is a heavily guarded strategic asset used to stockpile massive quantities of gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubricants. It serves as a primary fuel artery for Russia\u2019s northeastern regions and acts as a strategic staging ground for supplying the occupation army.<\/p>\n

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According to SBU officials, the drone impacts bypassed local defenses and initiated a major industrial fire. Current damage assessments have identified at least three large focal points of combustion within the facility\u2019s main reservoir park, which houses more than 60 bulk storage tanks.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussian petroleum storage depots, refineries, and logistics infrastructure remain legitimate targets for the SBU,\u201d the agency stated. \u201cIt is these facilities that provide resources to the aggressor\u2019s army and allow the Kremlin to continue its war against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expanding on Zelensky\u2019s mention of hits within the temporarily occupied territories, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) released a operational update on Telegram<\/a>, detailing a systematic dismantling of Russian tactical logistics and command nodes over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian forces obliterated a Russian command and observation post near Niekislytsi in Russia\u2019s Bryansk region. Additionally, UAV control centers were successfully struck in Hola Prystan (Kherson region) and Kleban-Byk (Donetsk region).<\/p>\n

In the Luhansk region, a specialized workshop used for manufacturing and arming heavy enemy drones was destroyed near Sokologirsk. In the Donetsk region, strikes wiped out a field artillery depot near Pryazovske and a critical logistics warehouse in Kleban-Byk.<\/p>\n

Precision strikes decimated Russian troop groupings across multiple sectors, including Vovchansk (Kharkiv region), Zherebianky (Zaporizhzhia region), and Troiebortne (Bryansk region, Russia).<\/p>\n

Battle damage assessment for the \u201cTamanneftegas\u201d terminal <\/p>\n

The General Staff also released a highly anticipated Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) regarding the massive June 13 joint operation against the \u201cTamanneftegas\u201d marine terminal in the Krasnodar Krai.<\/p>\n

Located near the settlement of Volna, the terminal is one of the Russia\u2019s vital export facilities in the Black Sea region, possessing the capacity to transship up to 20 million tons of oil and petroleum products annually.<\/p>\n

Three massive RVS-40000 type storage tanks (each capable of holding 40,000 cubic meters of fuel) were confirmed damaged or destroyed.<\/p>\n

The drone wave severed primary transit pipelines and crippled the high-tech marine loading arms situated on operational Piers No. 5 and No. 6.<\/p>\n

Crippling the explosives supply chain <\/p>\n

Simultaneously, the strike wave compromised the \u201cAzot\u201d chemical plant in Novomoskovsk (Tula Oblast). While local Governor Dmitry Milyaev initially attempted to downplay the incident by claiming that \u201cdrone fragments\u201d fell onto an unnamed industrial enterprise, visual evidence and Zelensky\u2019s confirmation proved otherwise.<\/p>\n

As one of Russia\u2019s largest chemical enterprises, \u201cAzot\u201d is indispensable to the Kremlin\u2019s<\/a> artillery shell production. The facility manufactures ammonia, nitric acid, and methanol \u2013 chemical precursors required to synthesize the high explosives packed into Russian ammunition.<\/p>\n

A broader logistics lockdown <\/p>\n

President Zelensky also confirmed that parallel strikes hit enemy military logistics hubs within the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s multi-region bombardment represents an expansion of Ukraine\u2019s strategy to degrade Russia\u2019s industrial and logistical capabilities<\/a> before reinforcements and supplies can reach the front lines.<\/p>\n

The operations in Tula and Yaroslavl seamlessly follow a highly destructive joint operation by the SBU, HUR, and SSO against the Tamanneftegas marine terminal in Krasnodar Krai<\/a>, which knocked out southern Russia\u2019s largest hydrocarbon export hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed on Telegram a wave of deep-strike drone operations targeting Russian military-industrial infrastructure overnight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-736161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}