Defense forces struck a "Chornomornaftogaz" facility and a relay station in Crimea
On the night of July 26, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Chornomornaftogaz facility in the Vnukove area of the temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as a ground-based relay station used to control attack drones in the Chornomorsk area. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The General Staff stated that it had confirmed the strike on the Chornomornaftogaz facility. Following the temporary occupation of Crimea, the Russian Federation — the aggressor state — seized the company’s facilities and has been using them for the extraction, storage, and transportation of natural gas and petroleum products, as well as to meet the fuel and energy needs of the occupying forces on the peninsula.
According to military sources, these repeaters increase the range, resilience, and control precision of “Geran” and “Gerbera” strike UAVs, which the enemy is using to launch attacks on Ukrainian territory.
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In addition, the Defense Forces struck a road bridge near Vyselky in the Donetsk region, which the enemy uses for military logistics. The General Staff also reported the destruction of an enemy UAV depot near Chervonopopivka and an area where enemy personnel were concentrated in Purdivka, Luhansk Oblast.
The General Staff also provided details on the results of previous strikes: on July 25, 2026, the strike on the Tyumen Oil Refinery in Tyumen was confirmed. The facility has a capacity of approximately 7 million metric tons of crude oil per year; the plant produces gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, fuel oil, and other petroleum products, which are used, in particular, to meet the needs of the Russian military-industrial complex and the Russian Federation’s armed forces.
