Ukraine drone strikes hit Russia’s oil and port infrastructure overnight

Ukrainian drones hit some of Russia’s most exposed fuel and port assets overnight, damaging a tanker and an oil refinery in Taganrog and striking an oil depot in Armavir as Kyiv pushed deeper into the logistics network that helps sustain Moscow’s war.

Russian regional officials said fires aboard the tanker and at the port of Taganrog had been extinguished and no oil spill was reported, but Rostov region governor Yury Slyusar said two people were injured. Taganrog, a city of about 240,000 on the Sea of Azov, sits close to the front line in Ukraine’s east and lies inside a vulnerable belt of energy and transport sites that have become recurring targets.

In neighboring Krasnodar region, authorities said a fire at an oil depot in Armavir was brought under control and there were no injuries. Russia said its air defenses downed 127 drones overnight, while Slyusar said almost 50 were intercepted over Rostov region alone. Taganrog’s mayor, Svetlana Kambulova, said a local state of emergency introduced on May 27 had been extended, a sign that the city’s emergency response remains under strain after repeated attacks.

Ukraine’s drone commander, Robert Brovdi, also known by the call sign “Magyar,” said the overnight operation hit 23 military targets and strategic facilities deep inside Russian territory and in occupied regions. He said the list included a Russian shadow-fleet tanker, the Kurganneft Produkt oil depot in Taganrog, and a maritime oil terminal in Feodosiia in Russian-controlled Crimea. That terminal has previously been described as one of Crimea’s largest oil storage sites and a key supply point for Russian forces there.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy separately confirmed the strike on Armavir and said Ukraine was “bringing the war back” to Russia in response to Russian aggression. The pattern fits a broader campaign aimed not only at battlefield positions but at the infrastructure behind them: refineries, depots, ports and shadow-fleet shipping that move fuel, feed military logistics and generate export revenue. Even when fires are contained quickly, repeated strikes force emergency measures, disrupt commercial traffic and add pressure on Moscow’s southern supply lines, including routes linked to the Black Sea and ports near Novorossiysk.