UAV event in Kazanorgsintez Plant area, Russian Federation on Tue 14th January 2025

The Ukrainian General Staff said the country’s military had struck between 200 and 1,100 km deep inside Russia overnight on Tuesday, targeting an oil storage, refinery, chemical and ammunition plants in the Bryansk, Saratov, Tula and Tatarstan regions. 

A massive fire erupted at the Aleksin chemical plant in the Tula region following a drone attack launched by Ukraine’s Security Service, the New Voice of Ukraine (NV) said, citing sources.

Ukraine hit the Kombinat Kristall oil depot in Engels, in the Saratov region. It attacked the same site last week, causing a huge fire that took five days to put out. 

The drone attack struck a munitions storage facility holding guided bombs and cruise missiles at the Engels airbase in the Saratov region, causing a fire that was still burning on Tuesday morning, a source told NV.

The Ukrainian General Staff said attacks on the Saratov oil refinery and the Kazanorgsintez plant triggered fires.

The General Staff also said it had struck the Bryansk chemical plant, which it said produced ammunition for artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, aircraft, engineering ammunition and components for Kh-59 cruise missiles.

“Ukraine’s Security Service together with other branches of Ukraine’s defense forces continues to target hostile military sites and industrial plants that are part of Russia’s military industrial complex. Each strike on ammunition depots, oil refineries, oil depots or chemical plants represents a painful hit to Russia’s ability to wage a war in Ukraine,” the source told NV. 

Last night was “a fiery one” for a number of Russian military sites across the country, it added.

On January 8, Ukraine struck a Russian oil depot that serves a military airfield in the city of Engels, in Russia’s Saratov region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. It reported multiple explosions and a big fire at the Kombinat Kristall oil depot, which it said provided fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield, where Russia’s strategic bomber fleet is based. The fire at the oil depot was put out five days after the drone strike.