Ukraine’s Special Operation Forces have struck three drilling rigs belonging to Russia’s oil giant Lukoil in the Caspian Sea on the night leading to January 11.
The hit targets are ice-resistant stationary platforms named after V. Filanovsky. V. Filanovsky, Yu. Korchagin and Yu. V. Grayfer, the Special Operation Forces revealed in a statement released on its official Facebook page on Saturday. It shared the video footage of the operation to strike the rigs.
The targeted platforms, located in the northern part of the sea, are reportedly used to supply fuel and logistics for the Russian occupants' army. With estimated reserves of 129 million tons of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of gas, Filanvsky oil field is one of the largest in Russian sector of the Caspian Sea.
The agency stressed that "the Special Operations Forces continue to carry out asymmetric actions with the aim of strategically exhausting the enemy's ability to wage war against Ukraine.” The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also confirmed that Russian targets in the Caspian Sea were hit, adding that the extent of damage was being assessed.
Saturday’s strikes were not the first attack on Russian energy facilities at the Caspian Sea. The Special Operations Forces launched four strikes on Russian oil platforms at the Caspian Sea in December.
Apart from the operation to strike oil rigs at the Caspian Sea, Ukrainian military also successfully struck a Russian Buk-M3 surface-to-air missile system in the vicinity of Baranycheve in Russian-held eastern Luhansk region. In yet another operation, Ukrainian troops targeted a logistics depot of Russia’s 49th Combined Arms Army near Novotroitske in southern Kherson region.
Earlier, on Friday, Ukrainian forces struck a train carrying fuel and lubricants at the loading rack of the “Hvardiiske” oil depot in Russian-annexed Crimea Peninsula. The operation was aimed at disrupting fuel supply to Russian army units within the “Dnipro” grouping.
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