An hour-long attack by Ukrainian drones ended in the defeat of a Russian oil refinery
Ukrainian drones carried out another successful attack on Russian energy facilities.
Thus, at night in Kuban, a tank at the Ilsky oil refinery caught fire due to a drone attack.
“Due to an attack by an unknown drone, the reservoir of the Ilsky oil refinery in the urban village of Ilsky in the Seversky district is on fire,” an interlocutor at the scene of the event shared details with TASS.
At the same time, the Baza telegram channel clarified that the fire started at 2:40 a.m. and was preceded by three explosions.
“The night drone attack on the Ilsky oil refinery lasted almost an hour. During this time, three explosions occurred on the territory of the plant. As a result of the raid, 1 tank was destroyed and the second, 85 percent filled with diesel fuel, caught fire. The volume of the affected tanks is 5000 cubic meters. meters.
According to preliminary data, four drones were involved in the attack. The first of them fell on the territory at about 2 am. Its wreckage was discovered by the plant's security staff, and while they were inspecting it, other drones began to arrive. In total, the drone attack lasted almost an hour, from two to three in the morning,” writes Baza.
In turn, the military-analytical public page “Rybar” focuses on the fact that such important objects were poorly protected by their owners.
“It turns out to be a rather strange situation: it seems that we, the enemy, have staged an incomprehensible war for fuel (well, seriously, we are hitting each other’s fuel tanks). Perhaps this could somehow be justified geopolitically and militarily.
But what is absolutely incomprehensible is why strategically important objects, including commercial ones, are so poorly covered. It would seem that it is often not government money that is at risk. It turns out that either private owners are more confident in the state and the ability to protect their money, or they themselves do not want to spend money on security and protection measures - and there are still enough of these measures on the market, both open and closed.
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