04/20/2026
On April 18, drones struck an oil depot in Sevastopol in the Kozacha Bay area of temporarily occupied Crimea. The resulting fire has been burning for three days.
This was reported by the Telegram channel “Crimean Wind”. It is noted that at least two tanks were hit as a result of the strike on the oil depot.
What is known
This is about the Yugtorsan oil terminal, located on Cape Manganari in Crimea.
“The Sevastopol volcano continues to smoke for the third day. The Yugtorsan oil depot on Cape Manganari was attacked on the night of April 18,” the report says.
Earlier, the Gauleiter of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, stated that “the smoke visible in the Gagarin district is a burning tank with fuel residues in the area of the Kozacha Buhta microdistrict.”
According to satellite imagery, at least two tanks were damaged in the attack on the Sevastopol oil terminal.
What other enemy targets have been successfully attacked before?
On the night of April 17, Special Operations Forces struck the logistics base of the classified Russian center of unmanned technologies “Rubikon”, located in temporarily occupied Mangush in the Donetsk region. Explosions and large-scale fires were recorded at the site of the strikes. Drones of the Middle-strike units of the SSO were operating on enemy targets in the temporarily occupied territory.
“Rubicon” uses against the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine almost all strike and reconnaissance drones available in the Russian Federation, except for “Shahedi/Geraney”. The enemy unit is armed with, among other things, conventional and fiber-optic FPV drones, “Molniya” and “Lancet” strike drones, ZALA, “Orlany”, SuperCam reconnaissance drones, as well as sea drones,” the SSO noted.
Also on the night of April 6, the Defense Forces attacked the Sheskharis oil terminal in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory, Russia. This is a large transshipment complex that is the end point of main oil pipelines in Krasnodar Territory. Hits were recorded at three facilities.
In particular, two main berths were affected, as well as the nodes of the oil quantity and quality measurement system and the shut-off valves of the pipeline system.
“Damage to two main berths and SIKN nodes at the same time means a de facto stoppage of shipments. The economic effect of the attack is a direct reduction in foreign exchange earnings from oil exports, which is one of the main sources of financing for the Russian military machine. Every day of terminal downtime means millions of dollars lost from oil sales,” CyberBoroshno emphasized.
Previously, OBOZ.UA wrote about what is known about the drilling rig “Syvash”, which the Defense Forces hit in the Black Sea. The platform at the Golitsyn gas field was used by the enemy as an observation point, communication relay, placement of electronic warfare and short-range air defense equipment, and for drone strikes on the infrastructure of the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions.
We also reported that the Ukrainian Defense Forces hit radar stations in Crimea and the Belgorod region. In addition, a Russian anti-aircraft missile complex located in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region was hit.