{"id":357763,"date":"2026-04-28T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=357763"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:05:52","slug":"1525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/1525","title":{"rendered":"Day 1,525: Ukraine strikes Russia\u2019s Tuapse oil refinery for third time in a month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukraine strikes Russia\u2019s Tuapse oil refinery for the third time in a month. An overnight attack sets ablaze a Russian military base in Crimea, hosting Iskander missile systems. Russia maintains its territorial objectives beyond the remainder of unoccupied Donetsk region, ISW says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine strikes Russia\u2019s Tuapse oil refinery for third time in a month<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine struck the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region for the third time in a month, the country\u2019s Unmanned Systems Forces said in a post to social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe operators of the 1st Separate Center and the 413th Raid Regiment in cooperation with the Special Operations Forces, Security Service, Main Intelligence Department of the Defense Ministry and other branches of Ukraine\u2019s defense forces struck one of the most advanced plants of the Rosneft company,\u201d the Unmanned Systems Forces said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the attack, saying: \u201cUkraine\u2019s defense forces carried out another strike on the Tuapse oil refinery in the Krasnodar region overnight on April 28 as part of [a campaign aimed at] decreasing the Russian aggressor\u2019s military-economic potential.\u201d The facility is involved in supplying the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, it added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine carried out the first attack on the refinery on April 16, damaging key production equipment. A massive fire raged for several days, Ukraine Unmanned Systems Forces said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next strike took pace four days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn April 20, Ukraine\u2019s defense forces once again targeted an area of the port infrastructure where refined products for exports are stored. A fire broke out on the site once again,\u201d the message reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two previous strikes have destroyed 24 oil storage tanks and damaged four others. The damage from the latest attack is being assessed, the agency added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overnight attack sets ablaze Russian military base in Crimea hosting Iskander missile systems<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An overnight attack set ablaze a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, hosting Iskander missile systems, the Telegram channel Krymskyi Veter (Crimean Wind) said on Tuesday, referring to satellite images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site in question is the former Russian missile base no.82717 located to the south of the village of Mizhhir\u2019ya in the peninsula\u2019s Bilohirskyi district.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facility was also targeted in a drone strike on April 16 when Ukraine\u2019s Unmanned Systems Forces struck two storage sites hosting Iskander operational-tactical missile systems near Mizhhir\u2019ya and Kurortne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia launches Iskander missiles at targets across Ukraine from occupied Crimea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia maintains its territorial objectives beyond the remainder of unoccupied Donetsk region, ISW says<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A statement by the leader of the occupation administration of Donetsk region, claiming the need to create a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in adjacent Dnipro region contradicts the Kremlin\u2019s attempts to portray the only unresolved issue in peace talks as Ukraine\u2019s refusal to cede unoccupied Donetsk region to Russia, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in an update on Monday. The paragraphs below are quoted from the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DNR) Head Denis Pushilin claimed to Kremlin newswire TASS on April 27 that Russia must establish a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to ensure the security of occupied Velyka Novosilka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, and to completely seize the remainder of unoccupied Zaporizhia Oblast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISW has long assessed that Russia maintains its territorial objectives beyond the remainder of unoccupied Donetsk Oblast, and Pushilin\u2019s statement contradicts the Kremlin\u2019s attempts to portray the only unresolved issue in peace negotiations as Ukraine\u2019s refusal to cede unoccupied Donetsk Oblast to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A January assessment from ISW underscored that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated that Russia\u2019s objectives in Ukraine go beyond the territory that is currently under discussion in the latest peace plans to include all of Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odesa oblasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia does not abandon attempts to advance in Ukraine and intends to seize not only entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but all of the country, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a post to social media on April 22. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s defense forces respond by systematically weakening Russia\u2019s potential to wage war. They target and destroy Russia\u2019s resources, supply lines and military capabilities, undermining the enemy\u2019s plans, Syrskyi added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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