UKRAINE HIT RUSSIAN OIL TANKERS
Peskov on Monday additionally condemned Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure over the weekend, together with an assault on an oil terminal owned by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, and one other that focused two tankers in Turkish waters.
A serious oil terminal close to the port of Novorossiysk halted operations Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats broken one among its three mooring factors, in response to an announcement from CPC, which owns the terminal. It got here a day after Ukrainian naval drones struck two oil tankers within the Black Sea that had been reported to be a part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” that evade sanctions.
Ukraine confirmed on Saturday it carried out the assaults.
Peskov described each incidents as “outrageous” and famous of the CPC terminal that “we’re speaking about a global facility.”
In the meantime, Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned Russian forces had destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones in a single day. The drones had been shot down over 11 Russian areas, in addition to the Sea of Azov, the ministry mentioned.
An condominium block was broken throughout a Ukrainian assault on town of Kaspiysk in Russia’s Dagestan area, native Gov. Sergei Melikov mentioned. Positioned on the shore of the Caspian Sea near Russia’s border with Azerbaijan, town is greater than 1000 kilometres (620 miles) from the entrance line.
