💥 Attack

Ukraine's SBU and HUR conducted overnight drone strikes on Russian oil depots in occupied Sevastopol, Tuapse, and Novorossiysk.

May 17, 2024 Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai

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Kyiv Post Kyiv Independent Ukrinform

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Entities

Security Service of Ukraine (organization) Main Intelligence Directorate (organization) Russia (organization) Ukrainian armed forces (organization) Tuapse oil refinery (location) Novorossiysk port (location) Novorossiysk fuel oil terminal (location) Importpischeprom terminal (location) Gazprom oil depot (location) Grushovaya Balka oil depot (location) Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) (organization) Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) (organization) Shahed-136 drone (weapon_system) Ukraine (organization) Black Sea Fleet (military_unit) Transneft terminal (location) SBU (organization) Ukrainian military intelligence (organization) Tuapse refinery (location) Rosneft (organization) RN-Tuapsinsky refinery (location) Rosneft Oil Co. (organization) Novorossiysk (location) Belgorod region (location) Crimea (location) Sevastopol (location) Dzhankoy (location) Tuapse (location)

Source Reports

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense (HUR) are behind the massive drone attack on Russian regions targeting oil depots in occupied Sevastopol and cities of Tuapse and Novorossiysk

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

The drones were reportedly launched from the Russian port town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, located on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and from Russia's Kursk Oblast.

Ukrinform → Source tone: likely

Drone attacks were reported overnight Friday in Russia's Novorossiysk, as well as Belgorod region and temporarily occupied Crimea’s Sevastopol and Dzhankoy

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