“On the night of 29 January, the unmanned the main intelligence department struck the oil depot of Lukoil oil company in the city of Kstvo, Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation. Source: UP sources in GUR, Telegram-channel Astra, NSDC CPD Head Andriy Kovalenko on Telegram Details: According to sources in special services, an object that provides Russian troops was attacked around midnight.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: UP sources in special services, Telegram-channel Astra, NSDC CPD Head Andriy Kovalenko in Telegram
Details: According to sources in special services, an object that provides the activities of Russian troops was attacked around midnight in local time, 4 out of 4 UAVs reached the target.
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It is noted that the residents of KSTOV on social networks report at least three explosions at the enterprise. At the same time, the sources in the defense forces claim that there were four hit by the oil depot.
According to the Ukrainian special services, as a result of the attack of the oil depot, it suffered significant damage, all four UAVs released on a hostile object have reached the goals.
In local Russian publications, users publish a video of a large -scale fire at the oil depot.
The Russian Federation reported on the attack of drones on Nizhny Novgorod NPZHTPTPS: //t.co/O7lgzekmsc pic.twitter.com/n22Aqm9ZZX
– Ukrainian Truth ✌️ (@ukrpravda_news) January 29, 2025
According to the head of the NSDC CPD Andriy Kovalenko, the refinery in KSTOV, which has arrived, is able to process from 15 to 17 million tons of oil per year. It can be called the fourth largest in Russia. Produces gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene, bitumen. Important to the army of the Russian Federation.
Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin recognized the attack of drones, but as he says, the fragments of the drone fell into the territory of one of the enterprises of the KSTOVSKA.
Russian propagandists claim that Sibar-Kostovo was attacked.
Reference: In KSTOVO there is an oil refining plant “Lukoil-Nizhzhgorodnaftoorgsynthesis”, next to it in the industrial zone are chemical enterprises and a thermal power plant.
In the morning, the Ministry of Defense of Russia stated that 104 Ukrainian drone was shot over the territory of the Russian Federation.
In particular, 47 drones were allegedly knocked down over the Kursk region, 27 – over Bryanskaya, 11 – over Smolensk, 7 – over Tver, 4 – over Belgorod, 3 – over Nizhnynorodskaya and Kaluga and 1 – over Rostov and Leningrad regions of the Russian Federation.
What was before: Before that, Russian Telegram-channels, governor of Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin reported that on the night of January 29 in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia there was a series of explosions, which, according to the Russians, were the result of attacks of drones on the oil refinery in the city of KSTOV.