Long-range strike drones from the Security Service of Ukraine carried out a successful attack on the Russian Filanovsky oil platform in the Caspian Sea, halting its operations. This is the first documented instance of damage to Russian oil infrastructure in this region.
According to informed sources within the Security Service of Ukraine, the operation was conducted by a unit of the Alpha Special Operations Center. They recorded at least four precise hits on the platform. The source noted that the strike completely paralyzed oil and gas production from more than twenty wells serviced by the facility.
The platform is owned by Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft. The Filanovsky field is considered one of the largest deposits explored in Russia and in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea (in the northern Caspian). Its reserves are estimated at approximately 129 million tons of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of gas.
It is noted that the resources extracted from this platform were exported through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. Therefore, the suspension of operations at this facility is expected to deliver a significant blow to the aggressor country’s economy.
Additionally, yesterday the Security Service of Ukraine’s Sea Baby maritime drones carried out a successful strike on a tanker of Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea. The tanker Dashan, flying the flag of the Comoros Islands, was traveling in Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone toward the Novorossiysk port terminal. “The vessel was moving at full speed with its transponder turned off. This was a joint operation by the 13th Main Directorate of the SBU Military Counterintelligence and the Ukrainian Navy,” volunteer Serhiy Sternenko reported on Twitter. “As a result of the attack, the tanker sustained critical damage and, according to preliminary information, has been disabled.”
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Source: suspilne
