After a “courtesy visit” at a military airport more than 300 kilometers south of the nearest Ukrainian positions, Russia lost four new Orion drones, which are capable of carrying up to 250 kg of weapons and can stay in the air for up to 24 hours deep above enemy territory, wrote Brovdi on the Telegram social network.
According to him, Ukrainian drones also successfully disabled the An-72P medium transport aircraft and the Soviet-made P-37 “Mech” radar station.
In recent days, the Ukrainian army has been massively attacking Russian oil export infrastructure with drones. On Thursday, Ukrainian drones were supposed to hit the oil refinery of the Russian state company Rosneft and a residential building in the city of Ufa, near the Ural Mountains, the Ukrainian website Kyiv Independent reported.
However, the Russian authorities claim that the fire in the refinery area was caused only by downed debris.
The Reuters agency, referring to its sources, wrote that Russia will have to take steps to reduce oil production, because Ukrainian drone attacks disabled a large part of the country’s capacities for exporting this raw material.
Roughly 20 percent of Russian export capacities are now out of service, which corresponds to deliveries in the volume of around one million barrels per day. Russia is the third largest oil producer in the world after the United States and Saudi Arabia.
