Ukraine Drone Strikes Tuapse Refinery : ce que l'on sait

Over the past couple of weeks, Tuapse has been hit by a series of three Ukrainian drone strikes targeting its refinery, one of the largest in Russia. Ukraine Drone Strikes Tuapse Refinery s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Australia ce jeudi.

Les faits

• Over the past couple of weeks, Tuapse has been hit by a series of three Ukrainian drone strikes targeting its refinery, one of the largest in Russia.
• list 1 of 4Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Tuapse refinery for third time.
• “The repeated strikes on Tuapse – three times in under two weeks – show that Ukraine is carrying [out a] sustained campaign mode, where compounding damage prevents recovery, the same pattern that targeted the Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports in the Baltic Sea in March.
• Ukraine is likely to continue and probably escalate this campaign, particularly as domestic drone production scales up and as these attacks systematically degrade Russian air defences to enable strikes deeper into Russian territory.”
• By the end of the April 20 attack, at least eight storage tanks at the refinery lay destroyed, the spilled petroleum leaking into the nearby Tuapse River from where the current carried it into the Black Sea, spreading along the coast.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, list 1 of 4Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Tuapse refinery for third time.

“The repeated strikes on Tuapse – three times in under two weeks – show that Ukraine is carrying [out a] sustained campaign mode, where compounding damage prevents recovery, the same pattern that targeted the Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports in the Baltic Sea in March.

Concrètement, Ukraine is likely to continue and probably escalate this campaign, particularly as domestic drone production scales up and as these attacks systematically degrade Russian air defences to enable strikes deeper into Russian territory.”

Au-delà de ce constat, By the end of the April 20 attack, at least eight storage tanks at the refinery lay destroyed, the spilled petroleum leaking into the nearby Tuapse River from where the current carried it into the Black Sea, spreading along the coast.

Reste à préciser que Ukrainian drones have again hit oil infrastructure in the city of Perm in central Russia, more than 1,500km from the front line.

Les chiffres

À noter par ailleurs : list 2 of 4Ukraine targets Druzhba pipeline to sever Russian oil, influence in EU.

Plus précisément, list 4 of 4At least three killed, more than 10 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine.

Dans la foulée, Four days later, on April 20, the refinery was struck again, leaving a massive plume of thick smoke billowing into the sky.

À ce stade, In a phone call with President Trump, Putin proposed a ceasefire on 9 May, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2.

Ce qui se dit

“Tactically, refineries make good targets for an attritional drone campaign – they are large, fixed, and difficult to defend,” observed Witold Stupnicki, senior analyst for Europe and Central Asia at Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED).

“Environmental disasters will happen in Russia until Russians begin demanding changes at the system level, and not just blaming Ukraine for what happened.”

“It’s an environmental disaster,” said Solovev, who drove from Sochi, 116km (70 miles) down the coast, to join the effort.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que Ukrainian forces have hammered one of Russia's largest sites in Tuapse, causing oil spills and black rain.

À noter par ailleurs : when cleanup volunteer Sergei Solovev arrived in the town of Tuapse, on Russia’s Black Sea coast, an unpleasant odour hung in the air and everything was coated in a layer of black grime.

Plus précisément, With no clear path to peace or even a ceasefire in the foreseeable future, Ukraine may intensify strikes on Russia’s oil industry, which is enjoying soaring profits as a result of the Middle East crisis.

Dans la foulée, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said the target in Perm was an Lukoil-owned oil refinery.

À ce stade, the attack on the Lukoil facility in Perm is the latest in a series of successful strikes launched by Ukraine on Russian oil infrastructure in response to Russia's continued aggression.

Recherches associées

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À retenir

• When cleanup volunteer Sergei Solovev arrived in the town of Tuapse, on Russia’s Black Sea coast, an unpleasant odour hung in the air and everything was coated in a layer of black grime.
• The attack on the Lukoil facility in Perm is the latest in a series of successful strikes launched by Ukraine on Russian oil infrastructure in response to Russia's continued aggression.
• Earlier this month a number of strikes were carried out on oil infrastructure in the city of Tuapse on the Black Sea, leading to significant oil spills.
• Recherches qui explosent : Guerre en Ukraine : fuite d’hydrocarbures en mer Noire, pollution de l’atmosphère... Pour la troisième fois, le dépôt pétrolier russe de Touapsé est frappé par des drones ukrainiens, Une pluie toxique tombe sur une ville de Russie après une frappe ukrainienne contre une raffinerie, L'Ukraine frappe une nouvelle fois la raffinerie de pétrole russe de Touapsé, Les frappes ukrainiennes de drones imposent un coût considérable à la Russie.