Ukraine Hits Crimean Railway Bridge, Fuel Depots in Major Strike on Russian Logistics

Discover Title:: Ukraine Hits 2 Key Bridges in Crimea and Fuel Depots in Donetsk in Coordinated Strikes

Summary:: Ukraine launched a coordinated strike targeting critical Russian logistics, hitting two key bridges – including a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal – along with the Moscow Oil Refinery, fuel depots, and command posts. The attacks disrupted supply routes used by Russian forces in occupied territories.

Ukraine struck a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal and multiple Russian military facilities in a wide-ranging coordinated strike on Thursday.

Ukraine’s General Staff, in its Thursday report, said Ukrainian forces struck a road bridge over the Kalka River near the settlement of Granitne in the Donetsk region, as well as a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal near Rozdolne in occupied Crimea.

The attacks form part of Kyiv’s ongoing campaign to choke off logistics to the occupied peninsula, with the commander of Ukraine’s drone forces previously saying the aim is to force Russian withdrawals.

Kyiv also struck the Moscow Oil Refinery, which supplies the Russian army, overnight between Wednesday and Thursday.

The General Staff said “a primary oil processing unit, secondary processing units, and a tank farm” were set on fire.

“A hit and a large-scale fire were recorded at the facility – at least five fire hotspots are currently burning. According to preliminary geolocation data, a primary oil processing unit, secondary processing units, and a tank farm are on fire,” the report says.

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Ukraine also struck the Gukovo oil depot in Russia’s Rostov region, resulting in a fire. The facility is used to store and transport “fuel and lubricants” used by the Russian military, the General Staff said.

In eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the General Staff said Kyiv forces also struck Russian fuel depots in Mariupol and Pyatypillia, a Russian command post near Soledar, and a logistics warehouse in the Boikivske district.

Confirmed damage from earlier strikes

The General Staff also released updated damage assessments from earlier strikes.

It said that in Russia’s Yaroslavl region, tanks with a combined capacity of 95,000 cubic meters (3.4 million cubic feet) were confirmed destroyed following the June 14 attack on the Palkino oil pumping station.

In Russia’s Volgograd region, three RVS-2000 storage tanks and part of an oil pipeline were confirmed damaged after the June 13 strike on the Kotovsky oil pumping facility.

Damage was also confirmed to five large RVSP-30000 vertical storage tanks at the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal near Volna in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai after separate strikes on June 13.