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Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) struck a major Russian fuel pumping station in the Vladimir region, igniting a large fire at a node that supplies the Moscow region with diesel and aviation fuel.
The strike was carried out by the agency's Alpha Special Operations Center and announced on its official website on May 24.
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SBU drones triggered a blaze covering 800 square meters at the "Vtorovo" linear production and dispatching station, the agency reported.
It described the site as a critical node in Russia's main fuel pipeline network, pumping primarily diesel fuel from refineries in central Russia to export ports and domestic consumers.
The facility supplies fuel to large oil depots around Moscow and to the Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Vnukovo airports—the three principal airfields serving the Russian capital. The SBU framed the operation as part of a sustained effort to degrade the military and economic potential underpinning Russia's war.
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Yevhenii Khmara, head of the SBU, said more long-range operations were being prepared.
"SBU is already preparing new special operations. The intensity of Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory will only increase. Our long-range sanctions will continue to operate," he stated.
Ukraine has repeatedly struck Russia’s fuel pipeline network in recent weeks. Earlier in May, Ukrainian drones hit the "Gorky" pumping station in the Nizhny Novgorod region, destroying two 50,000-cubic-meter storage tanks at a Transneft node that funnels Siberian crude toward refineries in central Russia.
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