Key facts
- Ukraine's General Staff confirmed damage from recent strikes on Russian oil depots and military targets.
- Fires were reported in multiple oil tanks at the Grushevaya oil depot and the Krasnoarmeysk oil pumping station.
- Key infrastructure for Russia's southern oil export network and transportation system was targeted.
- Strikes also hit a radar station, drone command posts, logistics depots, and personnel concentrations.
- Ukraine has increasingly used domestically produced drones for deep strikes into Russia.
- The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have intercepted numerous Ukrainian drones.
Ukraine's General Staff provided an updated assessment on June 10 detailing damage from strikes conducted two days prior against Russian military targets, including oil depots and transmission facilities. The strikes, which occurred overnight on June 8, targeted the Grushevaya oil depot near Grushevaya Balka in Krasnodar Krai, causing fires in two oil tanks and damaging infrastructure used for assessing petroleum products. This depot is part of the Sheskharis transshipment complex, a critical hub for Russia's southern oil exports.
Additionally, Ukrainian forces struck the Krasny Yar Line Production Dispatch Station in Volgograd Oblast, igniting a 50,000 cubic meter oil tank. This facility is a key node in Russia's oil transportation network. Other confirmed targets included a Russian radar station near Kabardinka, the Krasnoarmeysk oil pumping station where two 50,000 cubic meter oil tanks caught fire, and various drone command posts, logistics depots, and concentrations of Russian personnel in Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kursk Oblasts. A previous strike on June 6 on the Ust-Labinskaya oil depot also resulted in damage to fuel loading racks and storage tanks.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated its air defenses intercepted numerous drones. These attacks follow a pattern of Ukrainian forces targeting infrastructure critical to Russia's war effort, particularly oil refining and logistics facilities, and come amid ongoing conflict and a dismissal by President Putin of calls for peace negotiations.