04/18/2026
On the night of April 18, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck four oil refining facilities in Russia. The targeted strikes caused fires at the facilities.
As of the time of publication, the scale of the damage inflicted on the occupiers is being clarified. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On the territory of the aggressor country, the Defense Forces attacked the Novokuybyshevsk and Syzransk oil refineries in the Samara region, the RPK-Vysotsk “Lukoil-2” oil loading terminal in the Leningrad region, as well as the Tikhoretsk oil pumping station in the Krasnodar region. The General Staff emphasized that all of these enterprises provided for the needs of the Russian army.
In addition, a number of fuel and lubricant storage sites of Russian troops in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in particular near Mariupol, were hit.
Strikes were also carried out on locations of Russian repair units in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Such targets were hit in Mangush and Grafske, in the Donetsk region, and in the Tokmak district, in the Zaporizhia region.
Recall that Russia is losing $100 million every day due to difficulties with energy exports. Such losses were caused by the campaign of long-range strikes by the Defense Forces against Russian oil infrastructure.
OBOZ.UA also reported that the Defense Forces continue to deliver long-range strikes on the Russian deep rear. And their effectiveness has begun to be recognized even in the Kremlin: Moscow has begun to think about strengthening air defense in the regions that are most often attacked by Ukraine.
Killing refineries and oil depots ranks right up there in importance with killing cockroaches.
Ukrainian sanctions certainly work better than US sanctions.
And they look so great with the flames and huge, billowing clouds of black smoke.
I would love to see the potato generals giving their daily report to putler. I can imagine drone debris gets mentioned a lot. 😂
They could tell the isolated rat anything and he wouldn’t know any better. Maybe they are not drone debris anymore, but B-52’s by now.
“Moscow has begun to think about strengthening air defense in the regions that are most often attacked”
Any bets on whether they’ll move some of the 27 air defense systems protecting putler’s palace?
😂 😂 😂