For the third time in a week, long-range drones of the SSU’s Alpha Special Operations Center have hit oil production platforms of Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft operating in the Caspian Sea.
This was reported by the Hromadske media outlet, citing its own sources in the SSU.
According to the source, a platform at the Korchagin oil and gas condensate field was hit. The attack damaged critical equipment at the facility, and production processes stopped.
The SSU continues to work actively to reduce the flow of petrodollars to the Russian budget, and, accordingly, the ability to finance the war against Ukraine. No Russian facility working for the war is safe, regardless of its location,” the source said.
Based on reports from Russian monitoring channels, the DroneBomber channel found that around 11 a.m. on December 15, Russians warned of the approach of Ukrainian UAVs to the Krasnodar Territory with a vector of movement deep into the territory.
The Korchagin field, discovered in 2000, was the first field launched by Lukoil in the Caspian Sea. Production at the field began in 2010.
The field’s reserves by category are estimated at 77.8 million tons of oil. The maximum level of oil and gas condensate production is 2.3 million tons per year, and gas production is 1.2 billion cubic meters per year.
The previous attacks on Russian oil and gas infrastructure in the Caspian Sea took place on December 11 and 12, when oil production platforms at the Filanovsky field were also attacked. In addition, on December 12, a platform at the Yuri Korchagin field was attacked for the first time.
In addition, on December 12, the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Russian resistance movement Black Spark, hit two Russian vessels in the Caspian Sea that were transporting weapons from Iran.
It is stated that as a result of this successful operation, Russian ships were detected and destroyed off the coast of the Republic of Kalmykia.
“Among the affected vessels are the Composer Rachmaninoff and Askar-Saryzha, which are used by the Russian Federation for military purposes and are under US sanctions for their participation in the supply of military goods between Iran and Russia,” the Special Operations Forces said.
These are asymmetric actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces to undermine the offensive capabilities of the Russian occupation army.
