Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of attacking an oil depot in the Krasnodar region, just hours after Kremlin troops bombed a hospital in Sumy, leaving one dead and several injured.
According to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense, “the Kyiv regime carried out a premeditated attack with three fixed-wing drones on an energy facility in the town of Kavkazskaya.” The official statement emphasized that the bombing took place just hours after Putin had a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump, during which they agreed on a 30-day suspension of attacks on energy infrastructure in both countries.
The drone strike caused a fire at an oil depot located about 150 kilometers from the regional capital. Emergency teams are working to contain the flames and assess the damage at the facility, which belongs to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a key company in exporting crude oil from Russia and Kazakhstan. This consortium had already been targeted in another attack on February 17, when Ukrainian drones struck a compressor station in the Rostov region.
The Ukrainian bombing of the oil infrastructure in Krasnodar came after Russia used drones to attack two hospitals in the northeastern region of Sumy, causing destruction and forcing the evacuation of dozens of patients and healthcare workers.
Russia’s overnight offensive in Sumy left at least one dead and several injured in other areas of the region. Additionally, it damaged energy infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, leading to power outages in several localities.
The attacks from both sides occurred after the Kremlin announced that Putin had accepted Trump’s proposal to suspend offensives against energy infrastructure. Following his phone call with the U.S. president, the Russian leader ordered the immediate implementation of the ceasefire in that sector.
However, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, at the time Putin issued the order, at least seven Russian assault drones were already in the air, targeting energy facilities in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region. Despite the new directive, Russian air defense was instructed to destroy these drones before they could reach their targets. One was shot down by a Russian fighter jet, while the rest were neutralized by ground defense systems.
Ukraine’s attack on the Krasnodar refinery was not the only incident reported in the past hours. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian forces shot down 57 Ukrainian drones across different regions of the country overnight: 35 in Kursk, 13 in Oryol, one in Tula, one in Bryansk, and seven over the Sea of Azov.
“Russia is attacking civilian infrastructure and the population right now,” denounced Ukraine’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, via his Telegram channel.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the United States to oversee the partial ceasefire agreed upon by Trump and Putin, which includes a halt to Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
“The United States should be the main oversight entity,” Zelensky stated during a press conference in Helsinki.
