A Ukrainian drone strike on a Black Sea oil export terminal in southern Russia killed one person and injured three on Saturday, in the latest of a series of attacks targeting Russia's energy sector deep inside its territory. Ukraine's SBU security service claimed responsibility for the strike on the Tamanneftegaz terminal in the village of Volna, in Russia's Krasnodar region — a southern coastal area bordering the Black Sea — describing it as "the largest liquefied hydrocarbon transshipment complex in southern Russia." The SBU said the attack hit five fuel tanks and two oil loading stands, sparking fires at the terminal's freight depot and storage facilities. Krasnodar's regional governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, confirmed that drone debris had ignited a fire at a sea terminal in the Temryuk district, without providing further details.
The strike is part of a sustained and intensifying Ukrainian campaign against Russian energy infrastructure — refineries, depots, pipelines, and now export terminals — that Kyiv says is aimed at cutting off funding for Russia's war effort. In a statement, the SBU declared it would "continue systematically depriving the Russian war machine of resources," arguing that oil revenues are directly converted into the missiles and drones used to attack Ukrainian cities. On the same day, Ukraine's military also reported hitting an oil preparation and pumping station in Russia's Volgograd region, further east, causing another fire. Russian authorities confirmed the industrial fire in that area without disputing its cause.
The strikes come amid a broader Ukrainian push to degrade Russian logistics and military reach using long-range weapons. Earlier in the week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo missiles had struck a military components factory in Cheboksary, in the Chuvashiya region, more than 900 kilometres from the front line. Separately, Ukrainian drone forces targeted multiple bridges connecting the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula to occupied southeastern Ukraine, aiming to sever supply routes to the region. Military analysts note that virtually all land routes to Crimea — the peninsula Russia annexed in 2014 — are now seriously degraded, with the strategically vital Kerch Bridge previously weakened to the point where it can no longer carry heavy military equipment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Friday that Ukrainian strikes are "causing us damage," while insisting Russia would recover quickly and retaliate in kind. Russian attacks meanwhile injured nine people in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, setting fire to a marketplace after more than twenty drone and aerial bomb strikes. With the front line remaining largely static for over four years, both sides have increasingly substituted long-range strikes for ground advances. Peace negotiations remain effectively frozen; Putin recently rejected an invitation for direct talks with Zelenskyy. Trump is expected to participate in a G7 working session with the Ukrainian president in France on Tuesday, though no bilateral meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy is currently planned at the summit.