The Security Service of Ukraine carried out a successful drone strike on the Cherkassy Linear Production Dispatch Station (LPDS) in the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1,500 kilometers from Ukraine’s state border.
At least eight SSU drones targeted the facility. The strike caused a fire in the area of the tank farm and the station’s production facilities.
The Cherkassy LPDS is one of the key facilities of the Transneft-Urals system. The station is responsible for receiving, accumulating, storing, and pumping light petroleum products from the Ufa oil refining hub to main petroleum product pipelines. Nearly 2 million tonnes of petroleum products are transported through this facility annually, while its tank farm consists of 27 reservoirs with a total capacity of more than 385,000 cubic meters.
Damage to such facilities significantly complicates the logistics of petroleum product supplies in Russia’s central and eastern regions and negatively affects the operation of the fuel transportation system that supports the needs of the Russian military-industrial complex.
"The SSU operates across the entire territory of Russia, and for the occupiers there are no longer any safe regions, even deep in the rear. We consistently identify and destroy infrastructure that provides the enemy’s army with fuel, logistics, and resources for war. Every long-range strike forces the aggressor to pay an increasingly higher price for its war against Ukraine," SSU Head Yevhenii Khmara said.
