Since June 17, Russian forces have been striking gas stations in Ukraine every day, the agency wrote.
So, on the night of July 1, the Russian army Catch up Strike at five gas stations in the Dnepropetrovsk region. As a result, one local resident was killed and three others were injured. Under attack He hits And one of the gas stations in the Chernigov region.
In total, according to the agency’s calculations, Russia carried out a series of attacks on gas stations in six regions of Ukraine over a period of two weeks. In addition to the Dnepropetrovsk and Chernigov regions, we are talking about the Sumy, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also reported some strikes during this period (1, 2, 3, 4). They said that in this way they violate the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Rybar” Telegram channel, which is close to the Russian Ministry of Defense I mentionedRussia began escalating attacks on Ukrainian gas stations in the spring. As the agency notes, since the beginning of the Great War, Russian forces have been attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, including gas stations.
Now such attacks have become systematic. “The Hunter” too booksthat in recent weeks “there has been a deliberate defeat” of gas stations in Ukraine. Today the authors of the pro-war telegram channel male“The campaign of attacks on gas stations is already well underway, and is gradually gaining momentum.” According to them, this is an attempt to create a fuel crisis in large front-line cities of Ukraine.
father words Adviser to the Ukrainian Defense Minister Sergei Beskrestnov said that civilian gas stations are not linked to fuel supplies to the army. Russia is believed to be trying to destroy all front-line gas stations in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian logistics.
In recent months, Ukraine has increased the intensity of attacks on oil installations in Russian regions, as well as on Russian logistics services in the territories it annexed. Against this background, a fuel crisis began throughout the country, as well as in the Crimea.