{"id":1251,"date":"2025-01-18T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/ukraine-hits-2-oil-depots-in-russia-overnight\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:03:39","slug":"ukraine-hits-2-oil-depots-in-russia-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/ukraine-hits-2-oil-depots-in-russia-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine hits 2 oil depots in Russia overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1249556007.webp\" alt=\"Ukraine hits 2 oil depots in Russia overnight\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The story was updated with information about an attack on an oil depot in Russia&#8217;s Kaluga Oblast, reported by Ukraine&#8217;s General Staff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces attacked oil depots in Russia&#8217;s Tula and Kaluga oblasts overnight on Jan. 18, according to the General Staff and the Kyiv Independent&#8217;s source in Ukraine&#8217;s military intelligence (HUR).<\/p>\n<p>The attack came amid an uptick in Ukraine\u2019s drone attacks on Russia, as Kyiv aims at damaging Russia&#8217;s oil industry, which is crucial for sustaining Moscow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/war\/\"><strong><strong><strong>war<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/a> effort, as well as its military hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The drones operated by Ukraine&#8217;s military intelligence (<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/hur\/\">HUR<\/a>) hit the oil depot in Tula Oblast at least 10 times in this attack, a HUR source claimed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/tula-oblast\/\">Tula Oblast<\/a>, located south of Moscow, has regularly come under attack by Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2408921.173918487!2d34.78637681742008!3d53.870212597513635!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4134092c463fb773%3A0xa0d5c6e80e661c4b!2sTula%20Oblast%2C%20Russia!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sua!4v1737188317914!5m2!1sen!2sua\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>Tula Oblast Governor Dmitry Milyaev <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/fire-reported-at-oil-depot-in-russias-tula-oblast-following-drone-attack\/\">said<\/a> that a fuel storage tank caught fire at &#8220;one of the enterprises in the region.&#8221; No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/vchkogpu\/54127\">Videos<\/a><strong> <\/strong>posted on social media and shared by residents appear to show a large fire at an oil depot in the town of Uzlovaya in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian soldiers also hit an oil depot in the Russian town of Lyudinovo in Kaluga Oblast overnight, causing a fire, Ukraine&#8217;s General Staff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GeneralStaffZSU\/20056\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lyudinovo lies around 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n<p>The oil depot is owned by Kaluganefteprodukt, a subsidiary of Russia&#8217;s state-controlled oil company Rosneft, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(This is) a logistics center that supplies units of the Russian armed forces directly involved in the war against Ukraine,&#8221; the military said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kyiv Independent could not verify these claims.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-hits-russian-radar-equipment-in-belgorod-oblast-military-claims\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Ukraine strikes Russian S-400 radar equipment in Belgorod Oblast, military claims<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">\u201cThe termination of the functioning of the 92H6 radar station of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system was recorded, which indicates a successful target hit,\u201d the statement read.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Ukraine hits 2 oil depots in Russia overnight\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Kateryna Denisova<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1258244285.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine hits 2 oil depots in Russia overnight\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukrainian-drones-hit-russian-oil-depot-in-tula-oblast-source-claims\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: The story was updated with information about an attack on an oil depot in Russia&#8217;s Kaluga Oblast, reported by Ukraine&#8217;s General Staff. Ukrainian forces attacked oil depots in Russia&#8217;s Tula and Kaluga oblasts overnight on Jan. 18, according to the General Staff and the Kyiv Independent&#8217;s source in Ukraine&#8217;s military intelligence (HUR). 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