According to sources, long-range drones of the Alpha Special Operations Center of the SBU hit the oil production platform named after. Filanovsky, owned by the Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft company.
As noted, this Ukraine’s first defeat of Russian infrastructure related to oil production in the Caspian Sea.
It is reported that at least four hits were recorded on the offshore platform. The attack stopped oil and gas production from more than 20 wells it services.
Deposit named after Filanovsky is one of the largest explored fields in the Russian Federation and in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea. Its reserves amount to 129 million tons of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of gas. The extracted products were exported through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
“The SBU continues successful special operations against the Russian oil and gas sector, constantly expanding their geography. “Cotton” in the Caspian Sea is another reminder to the Russian Federation that all its enterprises that work for the war are legitimate targets, no matter where they are,” said an informed source in the SBU.