The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) executed a multi-target drone strike on Saturday June 13, crippling a crude oil processing hub deep inside Russia’s Volgograd region, while simultaneously striking military command posts across the front lines, the AFU General Staff reported on Telegram, The Kyiv Post reports.
Ukrainian units executed a long-range drone operation overnight targeting the Kotovo district of the Volgograd region. The strike achieved direct hits on a central oil preparation, processing, and pumping facility near the settlement of Yefimovka.
Local Volgograd administrative officials initially attempted to downplay the precision of the raid, reporting that a localized fire broke out on the territory of a “generic industrial infrastructure site” solely due to “falling drone debris.”
However, independent monitoring Telegram channela Exilenova+ and the ASTRA confirmed that the explosion directly compromised the Yefimovka Oil Pumping Station (NPS).
The Yefimovka facility functions as a technological node for the Russian energy grid. The complex strips raw crude extracted from the prominent Korobkovskoye oil and gas field – as well as adjacent fields in the Volgograd, Astrakhan, and Kalmykia regions – of formation water, associated petroleum gas, and mechanical impurities.
Once purified, the stabilized oil is pumped directly into Russia’s primary trunk pipelines, specifically feeding the massive Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk transit route, which supplies large domestic refineries and the Kremlin’s maritime export infrastructure.
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