Ukraine attacked a railway ferry with fuel tanks in the port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar region.
Ukraine continues to attack Russian oil infrastructure. Following an oil depot in the Rostov region, which has not been destroyed for five days, Ukrainian defense forces attacked the port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar region. Port Kavkaz is the second port in terms of cargo transfer in the Black Sea-Azov basin after the port of Novorossiysk. It is located in the Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea, which is annexed by Russia, from its mainland. In the harbor, a railway ferry with fuel tanks was hit and sank.
Last ferry
The ferry Conroe Trader was hit by a Ukrainian missile, probably Neptune, reported Ukrainskaya Pravda interlocutors at the command of the Defense Forces. The Conroe Trader is the only large ferry operating between annexed Kerch and Russia. There is still no official information from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces about the attack on the port.
At the time of impact, there were 30 fuel tanks on the ferry. The head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, published an emoji with a ferry and a red cross on his Telegram channel, while the official did not give any comments on the text and indirectly wrote his post is related to information. about the attack on the ferry.
Defeated
In July, Ukrainian forces have already carried out several attacks on the port of Kavkaz, as a result of which the Slavyanin railway ferry was damaged. British military intelligence wrote that Slavyanino remained the only rail ferry on this route and was returned to service after the previous two were broken by Ukrainian strikes on May 29.
The Slavs were carrying liquefied petroleum gas, intelligence believed. His report stated that after the Ukrainian attack on the port of Kavkaz, Russia was forced to deliver fuel across the Crimean Bridge.
Systematic work
On August 18, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov region. The area of the fire is 10 thousand square meters. At the oil depot, 22 fuel tanks caught fire on August 22, only six fuel tanks were extinguished by firefighters.
Attacks on Russian refineries and oil depots have been ongoing for more than six months. According to Reuters, at least seven Russian factories will stop their production in the first quarter of 2024. Due to the attacks on the refineries, Russia has increased the purchase of fuel from Belarus and also sought supplies from Kazakhstan .
Russian oil and gas sector analyst Mikhail Krutikhin in April estimated damage to 20% of all plant capacity in the European part of Russia. As a result, since the summer, the Russian Ministry of Energy decided to stop publishing gasoline production statistics. The decision was made “to ensure the information security of the petroleum products market.”
The Ukrainian strikes could be considered compensation for the ineffectiveness of oil sanctions against Russia, said American Benjamin Schmitt.
Source: korrespondent
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