Ukraine's General Staff releases satellite images of damaged Moscow oil refinery – photos
The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces has published satellite images of the Moscow oil refinery, which was recently struck twice by Ukraine's defence forces.
Source: General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces on social media
Details: The images were captioned: "The Moscow oil refinery today".
Quote: "The plant has stopped processing. The AVT-6 primary oil refining unit, the combined oil refining unit, three 10,000-cubic-metre tanks and one 30,000-cubic-metre tank were hit.
The images show two vertical steel tanks, 30,000 and 10,000 cubic metres, completely destroyed."
Background:
- On the night of 17-18 June, Ukrainian drones penetrated Moscow's layered air defence and struck the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya, causing a major fire at the facility. Russian media outlets have described this as the largest attack in the past two years. It is the second successful strike on a strategic Russian facility within three days.
- Afterwards, Moscow residents started to complain about "oil rain" in various areas of the Russian capital.
- On 16 June, Ukrainian drones attacked the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya. The strike damaged the ELOU-AVT-6 primary oil refining unit, forcing the plant to temporarily suspend operations.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that the latest long-range strikes by Ukraine's defence forces on military targets inside Russia are a justified response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.
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