Ukrainian Navy and Army conducted strikes on the ferry crossing and oil terminal in the port of Kavkaz on the Russian side of the Kerch Strait.
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Ukrainian Navy and Army struck the ferry crossing and oil terminal in the port of Kavkaz on Friday
Combined Ukrainian strike with long-range kamikaze drones and modified anti-ship missiles hit an oil and fuel storage facility in the Russian port city of Kavkaz early on Friday, May 31 set at least three fuel reservoirs alight.
A fire broke out at an oil depot at Port Kavkaz in Russia's Krasnodar Krai overnight following a drone strike
The fire originated at a fuel depot housing three petroleum tanks
The fuel is used to supply gas to Russian forces in parts of occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts
There are multiple casualties among the employees of the oil depot as a result of the strike
The strike group of the grouping of forces and means of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit a ferry crossing and an oil terminal at the Kavkaz port in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. It happened in the early hours of May 31, the night after the Ukrainian Defense Forces had put out of action the ferries of the Kerch ferry crossing in occupied Crimea, which were running to the Kavkaz part and were used for the aggressor's military logistics.
The oil terminal at the Kavkaz port was struck by several Ukrainian-made missiles from the Neptune coastal missile system.
The results of objective control confirm the explosions at the targeting sites.
Russia's modern and effective air defense system once again proved powerless against Ukrainian missiles and unmanned systems.
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