Ukraine claims to attack the Russian oil station

The Druzhba Pipelines Network and the Russian Baltic-2 System, are the target of recent Ukrainian strategic actions

Ukraine said it had performed an attack on an oil pumping station in Unecha, a strategic point of the Russian pipeline network designed for crude oil export. The action would have caused significant damage and a large fire in the installation located in the Bryansk region, near the Ukraine border and Belarus, the Ukrainian state-staff said in a Facebook post.

According to Kiev, explosions were heard both in the storage area and in the sections where the main and auxiliary pumps are located. However, it was not possible to independently confirm the Ukrainian allegations, and the country did not detail whether the attack interrupted the oil flow. Russian operator Transneft PJSC did not immediately respond to Bloomberg’s requests for comment.

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Bryansk’s governor, Alexander Bogomaz, said in his channel on Telegram that a fire occurred in the installation of fuel in Unecha, attributable to attacks of Ukrainian rockets and drones. He added that the fire has already been controlled, but has not provided additional information on the extent of damage.

The Unecha Pumping Station plays a central role in the Druzhba Pipelines Network, which carries Russian oil to countries such as Hungary and Slovakia, as well as bringing oil from Kazakhstan to Germany. The installation also includes the Baltic-2 Polar System, responsible for conducting Russian oil to the port of UST-Luga, the second largest export base in the Baltic Sea.

Unecha attack occurs amid a series of similar actions, with Ukraine intensifying attacks on drones against Russian energy infrastructure throughout this month. In early August, four Russian refineries were hit, partially interrupting the operations of three Rosneft PJSC plants. More recently, Kiev announced an attack on a major helium plant in Russia.

Analysts note that these actions intensify precisely before the meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, scheduled for Friday. The wave of attacks highlights Ukraine’s ability to reach strategic targets in Russia, in an effort to press Moscow through the ongoing geopolitical negotiations and tensions.

1,266 day of the war between Russia-Ucraine: list of important events

Here are the main events of the 1,266 of the Russian War in Ukraine.

Fight

• A Russian attack killed a civilian and injured someone else in Shakhove, Donetsk, Ukraine, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a Telegram post.
• Russian forces bombarded the city of Bilizerske, also in the Donetsk region of Ukraine at night, killing two people and injuring seven, including a 16 -year -old boy, the regional prosecutor said.
• The AFP news agency reported that the Ukrainians were evacuating Bilizerske while the Russian troops earned land in the area, while the Ukrainian battlefield group Deepstate reported that Russian forces advanced in Nikanorivka, Shcherbynivka and near Petrivka in the Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia wants Ukraine to withdraw from the entire Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine as part of a ceasefire agreement, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with US President Donald Trump for conversations about War in Alasa on Friday.
• The Ukrainian staff said its forces were involved in “difficult” combat near Pokrovsk and Dobropillia in Donetsk and that reinforcements were needed to block attacks from small groups of Russian troops.
• Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service said Ukrainian drones have reached a Russian long-range drone deposit in the Kzyl-Yul settlement in the Russian Republic of Tartarist.
• One person died after being injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Monday in Arzamas, in the Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod, according to Russian state news agency Tass, who cited the regional governor.
• The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, said that the AIEA team observed smoke rising from an administrative building at the Zaporizehzia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, but there was no “range of radiation, no impact on reported nuclear security and no victims”.
• The Russian forces slaughtered six guided bombs and 179 drones in 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday, according to Tass.

Ceasefire

• Zelenskyy said the summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska on Friday is a “personal victory” for Putin, “because he is gathering in American territory” and because he “somehow postponed the sanctions.”
• Zelensky also said he received a “first sign” of the US envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia could agree with a ceasefire without providing further details.
• White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the meeting in the capital of Alaska, Anchorage, would be “an exercise in listening to the president” and that the goal was for “going out with a better understanding of how we can end this war.”
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked by telephone on Tuesday. The US State Department stated that “both parties confirmed their commitment to ensure a successful event” at Alaska.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Putin talked to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un about his next meeting with Trump. Putin also expressed appreciation for the support of North Korea in the “release of the Kursk region of the Invasive Forces of the Kiev regime,” the ministry said in a publication on Telegram.
• Zelenskyy talked to Türkiye’s president, Emir do Qatar, Romania’s president and the Holland Prime Minister on Tuesday.

With information from Al Jazeera and Bloomberg*