 "Ukraine strikes key Russian fuel pipeline near Moscow, calls it ‘serious blow’ to military logistics")
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency on Saturday said its forces struck a major fuel pipeline in Russia’s Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, calling it a “serious blow” to Moscow’s military logistics.
The operation, carried out late Friday, targeted the Koltsevoy pipeline, which stretches about 400 kilometres (250 miles) and delivers gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from refineries in Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow, the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) said in a statement posted on Telegram.
According to HUR, the attack destroyed all three fuel lines near the Ramensky district, disrupting one of Russia’s key military fuel supply routes.
The agency added that the pipeline had the capacity to transport up to 3 million tons of jet fuel, 2.8 million tons of diesel, and 1.6 million tons of gasoline annually.
The strike comes amid a continued wave of Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, as both sides intensify efforts to weaken each other’s logistical networks.
“Our strikes have had more impact than sanctions,” said Kyrylo Budanov, the head of HUR, referring to international sanctions on Russia imposed over its full-out war and the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Elsewhere, a civilian died and 15 more were injured after Russia struck southern Ukraine with a ballistic missile on Saturday morning, local official Vitaliy Kim said. A child is among those injured in the strike on the Mykolaiv regi, he said and added that Russia used an Iskander missile.
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More ShortsAnother Russian strike early Saturday sparked a fire at a gas plant in the central Poltava region, Ukraine’s emergency service reported.
The latest strikes came as Russia keeps up massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure — attacks that brought power outages and restrictions across Ukraine earlier this week, in what Kyiv described as a “systematic energy terror.”
Moscow launched 223 drones at Ukraine overnight into Saturday, 206 of which were shot down, according to the Ukrainian air force. Seventeen struck targets in seven Ukrainian regions, the air force said, without providing details.
Russia also hit an agricultural enterprise in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, injuring a 66-year old woman there, according to a Telegram update by regional government official Viacheslav Chaus.
With inputs from agencies
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