Defense forces attacked an oil depot and a river vessel in the Rostov region
17.12.2025 - 12:50
On the night of December 17, units of the Defense Forces struck the Nikolaevskaya oil depot in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation.
According to preliminary data, the tank and the river vessel Captain Gibert were damaged, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
Also at night, Deep Strike weapons struck the infrastructure of the Slavyansky oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation.
Explosions and a fire were recorded in the area of the target. The extent of damage to the enterprise is being clarified.
As of 2025, the Slavyansky refinery processes crude oil and condensate with a capacity of about 5.2 million tons per year. It is involved in providing the armed forces of the Russian occupiers.
According to the results of previous missions, it was established that on December 14, Ukrainian strike UAVs hit the R. Graifer drilling rig in the Caspian Sea.
Damage to the stationary platform, which houses the operational and technical module for the preparation and pumping of produced gas, has been confirmed, as a result of which all 14 wells (the total production volume of which was almost 3.5 thousand tons per day) have been stopped.
