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In the night of 6 November, a series of explosions rang out in the settlement of Afipsky in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. This was reported by Hlavcom citing Exilenova+.
According to preliminary information, drones attacked the local oil refinery.
After the explosions, a fire broke out on the territory of the Afipsky refinery. Explosions were also heard in Adygea.
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Why is the Afipsky refinery a strategic target?
The Afipsky refinery is located near the settlement of Afipsky, 18 km from Krasnodar. The plant belongs to the Safmar group and is one of the largest in southern Russia: its design capacity is 6,25 million tonnes of oil per year, while actual processing, according to Reuters, reaches 7,2 million tonnes. That is over 2% of all Russia’s oil refining capacity.
The enterprise produces gasoline, diesel fuel, and aviation kerosene. It is precisely aviation kerosene and diesel that fuel the Russian army in the southern direction. As Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, noted, the refinery’s location in Krasnodar Krai makes it a key logistics hub for supplying fuel to Russian military equipment. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has repeatedly confirmed that the plant is “involved in supplying the occupying army.”
As is known, Krasnodar Krai is not only a fuel base for the Russian army. It is from here that the Russians regularly launch Shahed kamikaze drones at Ukraine. At the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield, aircraft are based and drones are stored that the enemy uses to strike Ukrainian cities. The Yeisk airfield, located “across the bay” from Mariupol, is used to base Su-34 bombers. Both facilities have already been targeted by Ukrainian strikes.
Destroying fuel capacities in the region also damages the logistics of supplying fuel to those bases.
As is known, on the night of 5 November, the Russian city of Ryazan came under a drone attack.
Local residents reported a series of powerful explosions, after which a fire broke out at the Ryazan oil refinery.
Also, on the night of 4 November, drones struck a logistics complex of the marketplace Ozon in the city of Adygeysk (Republic of Adygea).
Company representatives report that the attack caused a fire at the facility, but all employees were evacuated in time and, according to preliminary data, no one was injured.
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