The Main Intelligence Directorate struck airfields, radar stations, and an oil terminal in Russia using drones
On the night of August 20, Ukrainian forces struck airfields in the temporarily occupied cities of Donetsk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, from which the Russians had been launching attack drones into Ukraine.
At the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield, two Russian radar systems—“Nebo-U” and “Niobium”—were also struck. Launchers and ground components of drone systems were damaged, and fires broke out at the sites.
In addition, the “Tamanneftegaz” marine terminal in the Krasnodar Region was attacked. There, storage tanks and sections of main pipelines were damaged, after which a large-scale fire broke out. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the terminal is used to supply Russian occupation forces.
Source: Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
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