On the night of December 17, Defense Forces units used Deep Strike weapons to strike the infrastructure of the Slavyansky oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar region of Russia. Hits were also recorded at the Nikolayevskaya oil depot in the Rostov region and the occupiers’ artillery depot in the Luhansk region.
This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Explosions and a fire were reported in the area of the Slavyansk oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban. The extent of damage to the facility is being assessed. As of 2025, the Slavyansk oil refinery processes crude oil and condensate with a capacity of about 5.2 million tons per year. It is used to supply the Russian occupying forces.
A strike on the territory of the Nikolayevskaya oil depot in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation has been confirmed. According to preliminary data, a tank and the river vessel Kapitan Gibert have been damaged.
In the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, a field artillery depot of the 101st separate brigade of the invaders’ logistics unit was hit. The damage is being assessed.
Based on the results of previous missions, it has been established that on December 14, Ukrainian strike UAVs struck the R. Graifer drilling rig in the Caspian Sea. Damage to the stationary platform, which houses the operational and technical module for the preparation and pumping of extracted gas, has been confirmed, resulting in the shutdown of all 14 wells (with a total production volume of almost 3,500 tons per day).