On the night of October 2, Ukrainian drones attacked the russian cities of Volgograd and Samara, targeting oil facilitiesIn Volgograd, a fire broke out in the industrial zone where Lukoil’s oil refinery is located, while in Samara, a linear production and dispatch station on an oil pipeline caught fire. The governor of the Volgograd Region confirmed that the region had come under attack and reported that one person had been injured.
OSINT analysts reported possible strikes on oil refining facilities. According to their data, the facility in question is the Volgograd oil refinery, which is one of the largest enterprises in russia's oil refining industry, with a capacity of approximately 14–15 million tons of crude oil per year.
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"Today, explosions were heard for an extended period in Volgograd, including in the city and around the industrial zone of the Volgograd oil refinery," monitoring channels reported.
The governor of the Volgograd Region confirmed the attack on the region and said that, according to preliminary reports, the shelling had caused a fire in an apartment building in the city. He added that one person was reported injured and that the attack was aimed at industrial infrastructure.
In the early morning, Telegram channels also reported a series of explosions in Samara, where an air raid alert had previously been issued due to a drone threat. Analysts later reported that a linear production and dispatch station—a major hub on the main pipeline that receives, stores, pumps, and distributes oil and petroleum products—was on fire in the city.
Earlier Defense Express reported that Ukraine's FP-7 ballistic missile had struck russia for the first time. We also wrote that Ukrainian FPV drone had hit loaded russian BM-21 Grad system, triggering rocket detonation.
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