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Ukrainian Drones Strike Russian Oil Terminal and Power Substation Supplying Temporarily Occupied Crimea
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Ukrainian Defense Forces drones struck an oil and gas terminal and an electrical substation in Russia’s Krasnodar region that is essential for supplying temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi reported on August 20.
According to the outlet, satellite data from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) detected fires at both facilities, including the Tamanneftegaz oil and gas complex in the settlement of Volna.
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The strike is believed to have ignited tanks used to store crude oil and petroleum products.
Tamanneftegaz is operated by the OTEKO Group and is the largest privately owned oil terminal complex in southern Russia. The facility serves as a specialized transshipment hub for receiving, storing, and shipping petroleum products.
The terminal has an annual throughput capacity of approximately 19.9 million metric tons. Before Ukrainian attacks began, its storage facilities for petroleum products and liquefied gas had a total capacity exceeding 1 million cubic meters.
Also overnight, the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Krasnodar Krai and the 500 kV Taman substation were attacked. pic.twitter.com/l4HI1nyLZF
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A fire was also reported at the Taman electrical substation, which serves as a critical link in Russia’s so-called energy bridge supplying power to temporarily occupied Crimea.
The incident coincided with a major blackout across the peninsula overnight. According to Crimean Wind, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Kerch, Feodosia, and Yalta experienced complete power outages.
The Taman electrical substation (500/220 kV Taman Substation) is a major 500 kV transmission substation that forms part of Russia’s unified power system.
According to Militarnyi, the facility is one of the key components supplying electricity to Russian-occupied Crimea across the Kerch Strait. All four transmission lines of the energy bridge connecting Russia’s Krasnodar region with the occupied peninsula pass through the substation.
Disabling infrastructure of this kind can create power shortages in occupied Crimea and restrict the operation of Russian industrial and military facilities there.
The latest strikes come amid continued Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure. On August 20, Ukrainian long-range drones targeted an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, in Russia’s Tatarstan region, according to the Exilenova+ OSINT community.
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