💥 Attack

Ukrainian drones conducted a follow-up strike on the same Lukoil offshore oil rig in the Caspian Sea.

December 12, 2025 Caspian Sea

Verified Independently confirmed by 4 sources

Stefan Korshak (Substack) Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Censor.NET

Multiple high-reliability sources confirm the core facts of this event.

Entities

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) (organization) Filanovsky Oil Field (location) Korchagin Oil Field (location) Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) (organization) Alpha Special Operations Center (military_unit) Korchagin oil and gas condensate field (location) Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) (organization) Alpha special operations unit (military_unit) Vladimir Filanovsky oil platform (location) Korchagin platform (location) Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Black Spark rebel movement (organization) Composer Rachmaninov (weapon_system) Askar-Sarydzha (weapon_system) SSU (organization) Filanovsky field (location) SSU Special Operations Center "A" (military_unit) Filanovsky offshore platform (location) Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft (organization)

Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian drones conducted a follow-up strike on the same Lukoil offshore oil rig in the Caspian Sea.

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: likely

SBU drones struck Lukoil's oil platforms in the Caspian Sea

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: uncertain

SBU drones struck oil platforms at the Korchagin field on Dec. 12

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

Two Russian ships were struck in the Caspian Sea near Republic of Kalmykia carrying weapons and military equipment by Ukrainian SOF and Black Spark movement

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.497Z

Source story: day-1-2025-12-16