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Ukrainian drones continue to destroy oil facilities on Russian territory. Security Service fighters struck targets in Stavropol and Tver that were working to reinforce the aggressor state’s military machine. This was reported today, July 9, by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to UATV English.
“Our soldiers are carrying out the long-range sanctions plan in response to the war being dragged out and Russian strikes. Yesterday there were important strikes on facilities that supply Russia’s oil complex and serve its military policy,” the head of state said.
Specifically, drones targeted oil depots in Stavropol and Tver, as well as a fuel storage facility deep in enemy territory, 800 km from the Ukrainian border.
“SSU soldiers struck two oil depots — in Stavropol and Tver. Both are roughly 500 km from the front line. Ukraine’s Defense Forces units also struck a reserve storage facility for fuel accumulation and storage, located about 800 km from the front line,” Zelenskyy reported.
In addition, an oil pumping station in Ufa, located 1,500 km from Ukraine, was hit.
“In Russia’s Ufa, sanctions were applied to an oil pumping station nearly 1,500 km from our border. An oil loading terminal in the Rostov region, about 200 km from the front line, was also sanctioned,” Zelenskyy said.
The president stressed that Russia was offered a proposal to end the war long ago, yet the Kremlin continues to ignore all diplomatic paths to resolving the conflict.
“I thank all our soldiers who make such results possible every day. We proposed long ago that Russia end this war, and every day it drags on should bring the feeling of war back to where it all started — to Russia,” Zelenskyy emphasized.
It was previously reported that the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a key facility of the “Kuban–Crimea” energy bridge, which supplies electricity from Russian territory to the temporarily occupied peninsula.
