Ukraine's Defense Forces have struck the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia's Rostov region using Storm Shadow cruise missiles, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on December 25.
According to the General Staff, multiple explosions were recorded, and the target was successfully hit. The full extent of the damage is currently being assessed.
The Novoshakhtinsk facility is one of the largest oil suppliers in southern Russia and plays a direct role in supplying the Russian military. The plant provides diesel fuel and jet fuel to occupation forces. It has a total storage capacity exceeding 210,000 cubic meters.
That same night, Defense Forces units attacked infrastructure at the Temryuk seaport in the Krasnodar region. The strike triggered explosions and set two fuel storage tanks ablaze. A large fire engulfed approximately 2,000 square meters of the port complex, which is used to supply the Russian Armed Forces.
A strike was also launched against a military airfield near Maikop in the Republic of Adygea. Preliminary reports indicate the target was hit, resulting in a fire.
Additionally, attack drones struck a repair unit of the 143rd Motorized Rifle Regiment near Truzhenka in the occupied Donetsk region.
Updated assessments of previous strikes on the Belbek airfield in occupied Crimea have confirmed the destruction of a 96K6 radar station and an R-419 communication station, as well as damage to a 55Zh6T radar system.