After targeting two tankers… drone boat attacks hit a Russian oil station

Russian oil facility in one of the The Black Sea suffered severe damage on Saturday as a result of attacks by naval drone boats, according to what the authorities announced.

While Kiev claimed responsibility for strikes targeting two oil tankers from "Ghost Fleet" Which Moscow uses to circumvent Western sanctions.

These attacks come at a time when Ukraine is facing intense pressure at the military and political levels. The Russian army continues to advance in the east of the country, while the administration of Volodymyr Zelensky is rocked by a massive corruption scandal that prompted the Ukrainian president on Friday to dismiss Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and one of his most influential aides.

On another front, Kiev was subjected to Russian drone attacks during the night of Friday and Saturday, killing at least three people.

Targeting two oil tankers

Diplomatically, a delegation directed From Ukrainian negotiators to the United States on Saturday, headed by Rustam Umarov, Secretary General of the National Security and Defense Council, to hold talks on the American plan to end the war, according to what Zelensky announced.

While Kiev seeks to keep papers to use in the negotiations, attacks by naval drone boats early Saturday morning targeted a major oil terminal in the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.

This facility is used to export oil coming from one of the largest Pipelines in the world, which transport crude from the Kazakh fields located on the banks of the Caspian Sea, passing through Russian territory and reaching the Black Sea.

Global oil supplies

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (Caspian Pipeline Consortium), which manages about 1% of global oil supplies, said in a statement that "Shipping Berth No. 2 was severely damaged as a result of a terrorist attack directed by unmanned boats".

The company added that "Loading operations and other activities were halted, and tankers were diverted outside the complex’s waters"confirming that there were no casualties among its employees or contractors.

For its part, the Kazakh Ministry of Energy condemned in a statement the attack, considering that "unacceptable" And it is shaped "Risks to global energy security".

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