Video: Drones Attacked the Key Ilsky Oil Refinery in Russia
On the night of July 10, drones attacked the Ilsky Oil Refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. According to local residents, explosions were heard on the plant’s grounds, and hits were recorded. The Ilsky Oil Refinery is a key component of the fuel infrastructure that supports the Russian military.
According to monitoring channels, the strike on the facility was recorded in the village of Ilskaya in the Seversky District of the Krasnodar Krai. Local Telegram channels have shared footage suggesting a possible strike on the refinery grounds. The extent of the damage and whether there are any casualties are currently being determined.
The Ilsky Oil Refinery is one of the key oil refineries in Russia’s Southern Federal District. According to Glavkom, the facility is located approximately 360 km from the front line in Ukraine and 50 km from Krasnodar. The plant’s design capacity is about 6.6 million metric tons of crude oil per year—twice as much as before the facility’s modernization.
The refinery produces:
- gasoline;
- diesel fuel;
- fuel oil;
- liquefied gas.
Its geographical proximity to the Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk and Taman makes the Ilsk Oil Refinery a key hub for military logistics: fuel from the refinery is shipped through these ports to units engaged in combat operations against Ukraine and also supplies the occupied Crimea.
This was reported by the Telegram channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+.
On June 29, representatives of the organization “Black Spark,” which positions itself as an underground movement, claimed to have hacked the IT systems of the “Alabuga” enterprise in Russia and allegedly “mined” the attack drones assembled there.
Partisans showed the aftermath of strikes on radar stations in Crimea
Partisans claimed to have destroyed communications nodes in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation
