Ukrainian drones attack railway bridges in Crimea — General Staff
On June 18 and overnight on June 19, units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces hit a number of Russian military facilities, says Ukraine’s General Staff.
Ukrainian military report attacks on the railway bridges near Rozdolne and Vladyslavivka in the temporarily occupied Crimea, which Russia used to transport and supply its troops.
The area of concentration of Russian weapons and military equipment near Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region and a fuel and lubricants warehouse in Mariupol in the Donetsk region were also hit.
In addition, the Ukrainian military attacked the enemy’s drone control points near Pokrovsk, Voskresenka and Siversk in the Donetsk region, Novoivanivka in Zaporizhzhia, as well as Maliivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The General Staff also confirmed the damage to a complex oil processing unit, 3 RVS-10000 tanks and 1 RVS-30000 tank on the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery due to the attack on June 18.
The refinery has suspended its operation for an indefinite period.
More about attacks on Moscow
Dozens of Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow and the Moscow region overnight on June 18, targeting an oil refinery.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that by morning, nearly 200 drones were downed near Russia’s capital, some of which reached an oil refinery. Russian media RIA Novosti called it the largest attack on Moscow in the past two years.
Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the attack on the Moscow Oil Refinery, saying that at least 5 refinery locations were set ablaze. According to preliminary geolocation analysis, the combined oil refining unit, secondary processing units and tank farm are on fire.
Ukrainian President Zelensky called the attack on Moscow a response to Russia's attack on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and called on Europeans, Americans, and Russians to put pressure on Putin.
Earlier, overnight on June 16, Ukrainian drones had already attacked the Moscow Oil Refinery. According to the General Staff, it is involved in supplying the Russian army, and its processing capacity is over 12 million tons of oil per year.