Crimea Oil Depots Destroyed: Enemy’s Eggs Into One Basket

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Last night, our military paid special attention to the enemy’s oil refining. They didn’t scatter attention to other targets. So, it became known that our drones reached the Mariinsky refinery in the corresponding subject of the federation. The drones also hit a mini-refinery in Ulyanovsk region. No one is surprised that the Crimea Oil Depots Destroyed trend continues — during the night, our “good birds” visited the already well-known oil storage site in Hvardiiske once again.

Local gauleiters told a text written according to the template. They say everything was shot down. Only the debris fell, so there’s smoke. Meanwhile, the population publishes online the view of the glow in the night sky. They point to the place where it glows so unusually. Practice shows that the technological equipment of refineries burns for a short time. If there was no hit to a tank with oil or petroleum products, by morning there may be no visual effects left. Neither fire nor smoke will be visible anymore.

You can always say that smoke and fire are consequences of technological processes. They need to be launched in certain cases. At least, this is exactly how the orcs explained the powerful burning at the Orenburg gas processing plant. And everyone was satisfied with this.

Forcing All Logistics into One Basket

As far as can be understood, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now driving all enemy logistics into one place: the Black Sea Fleet oil depot in Sevastopol. The enemy understands that this is an extremely dangerous situation. Despite the fact that in Sevastopol they maximally use aviation and ground air defense means to cover infrastructure. However, they try to distribute fuel among all places that are more or less suitable for storage.

Literally all theorists of military art advised not to put all eggs in one basket. As we know, to unload logistics, the enemy used a rather large oil depot in the settlement of Hvardiiske. It’s located on the outskirts of Simferopol. Since Soviet times, a whole clearing of large tanks was built for the needs of the local large airbase and other military facilities. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine have entered it twice already. Therefore, 2/3 of the tanks have already burned out. They completely went out of order.

And today it flew there again. As of morning, residents of Simferopol observed a giant column of smoke rising into the sky from the Hvardiiske area. There it’s also still unknown how many tanks are burning. But very few of them remain. It seems that it’s precisely on the peninsula that the enemy acutely feels the shortage of tank capacity for fuel storage. For military logistics, they already use fuel warehouses of local thermal power plants. Local residents write about this. They saw how in recent days queues of military fuel trucks lined up there. With characteristic numbers and camouflage. No wonder the Armed Forces of Ukraine immediately stopped such lawlessness.

Crimea oil depots destroyed: Only Sevastopol Remains

After the Armed Forces of Ukraine finally take out the oil depots in Hvardiiske and Feodosia, and also clean up small oil depots and fuel warehouses, the only fuel hub on the peninsula will remain the Sevastopol oil depot of the Black Sea Fleet. It’s clear that from the very beginning it was built so that it would be extremely difficult to hit it with air strikes. But our military know its strengths and weaknesses perfectly.

If the Sevastopol oil depot goes after the previous oil depots, it will become a suitcase without a handle for the orcs. They’ll need to pour gigantic money into it. At least to partially restore the fuel infrastructure. But while the active phase of the war is going on, these measures are useless by definition. After all, it’s obvious that even without this lengthy process, building an oil depot can be interrupted at any moment. The arrival of a good bird can do this.

But that’s not all

This same night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine imposed sanctions on other objects in the south of the federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that it flew to the gas processing plant:

On the night of October 29, 2025, units of the Defense Forces hit two oil refineries. They are involved in supplying the army of the aggressor country. Explosions and fires were recorded on the territory of enterprises.

-Novospassky refinery in the settlement of Novospasskoye, Ulyanovsk region of the russian federation was hit. This oil refinery is part of the Prominvest holding. The main direction of activity is primary processing of hydrocarbons. Processing volume is 600 thousand tons of oil per year (0.2% of total russian processing). The plant produces gasoline, diesel fuel and fuel oil. It provides fuel for internal consumption of the russian federation. It also carries out export of petroleum products.

-Mariinsky refinery in the settlement of Tabashino, Republic of Mari El was hit. At the facility – explosions and fire. The plant provides for the internal needs of the Volga Federal District. Design processing capacity is 1.3 million tons per year, which is 0.5% of all russian federation processing. It has two primary oil processing units and a vacuum fuel oil processing unit.

-In addition, domestic strike drones hit the Budyonnovsk gas processing plant in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai of the russian federation this night. A hit was recorded on the production unit GPU-1. The design processing capacity of this gas processing plant is 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas per year. It provides gas to a number of enterprises in the region. It is a source of raw materials for the petrochemical industry.

So, this night turned out to be quite interesting for the orcs. Plus, it hit plants that had not previously been attacked. This means that the cumulative effect from hitting an ever-growing number of assets of this profile will turn out to be more destructive. More than the orcs predicted even a month ago.

And we’ll simply note something important. If the Armed Forces of Ukraine took on mini-refineries as far as Ulyanovsk region, this speaks volumes. In particular, it’s already about “cleaning up” not only industry giants and not just the Crimea Oil Depots Destroyed routine, but also smaller, hidden facilities. The safety margin of the orcs’ economy is shrinking fast — and when it snaps, their army will feel the shock first.