This is the fifth strike recorded on the facility since the year 2022, highlighting its strategic importance.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted a strike that resulted in an explosion at a depot of oil in Rovenky, which is a city located in the Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast.
Recent Ukraine has intensified their campaign against Russian fuel and ole storage facilities that are crucial for fueling Russian vehicles, aircraft and equipment.
Due to its location, the oil depot in Rovenky is of strategic importance. It serves as a hub for Russian military operations in Eastern Ukraine.
Since 2014, Rovenky is under Russian occupation. It is located over 110 km away from the current frontlines of Ukraine. Since 2014, Russia uses the local oil depot, located next to the railroad, to store POL for its troops stationed and deployed in occupied Luhansk Oblast.
According to the Ukrainian Army General Staff, the operation was carried out by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense in collaboration with other components of Defense Forces.
The oil depot in Rovenki in occupied Luhansk Oblast that was targeted by drones yesterday night is one of only a few such facilities in the area.
Since its occupation in 2014, the facility has played a major role in sustaining Russian military operations in Luhansk and Donetsk… pic.twitter.com/GpmzZMDKMz– Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) October 12, 2024
NASA Firms, which monitors global fires, confirmed that a fire had broken out in the northeastern suburbs of Rovenky.
A Russian Telegram channel called “Intsydent Luhansk” reported that ten Ukrainian Armed Forces drones had attacked an oil depot at Rovenky. Russia intercepted eight of them. Two drones, however, made it through and ignited a fuel tank. The channel claimed that Ukrainian forces had also attempted to shell the facility as firefighters worked to extinguish a blaze.
Intsydent, a local news outlet, has shared photos that allegedly show debris from drones at Rovenky Oil Depot.
This is not the first attack on the Rovenky Oil Depot.
In May 2024 Ukrainian forces attacked the facility, presumably using ATACMS rockets, killing one person and injuring at least six others.
On 24 April 2023 an alleged Ukrainian UAV attacked destroyed a fuel tank in Rovenky.
A missile strike on 1 July 2022 destroyed an industrial facility near the oil depot.
On 26 February 2022 – 4 days after the full-scale invasion by Russia – Ukraine hit the oil depot using the Tochka U missile.
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