After the attack on the Russian tanker south of Crete, it managed today a second attack on Russia, this time on the Filanovsky oil and gas rig, which belongs to the Russian hydrocarbon giant Lukoil, and the Russian patrol vessel Akhotnik as it sailed in the Caspian Sea, the Ukrainian General Staff announced today via Telegram.
In the photo published by , we see the Russian project 22460 Okhotnik through the interface of the FP-1/FP-2 guided strike drone.
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The statement said that the Ukrainian military launched strikes on the “ship patrolling the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. Several Ukrainian drones hit the ship. The extent of the damage is still unclear.”
❗️General Staff of the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine:
On the night of December 19, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a Russian Project 22460 patrol ship “Okhotnik” (likely “Rasul Gamzatov”) in the Caspian Sea, which was guarding oil and gas…
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Regarding the oil and gas rig, Ukraine states that it “ensures the production of oil and gas and participates in the supply of the armed forces of the Russian invader”, while not specifying the extent of the damage.
