Source: Ukrinform
In a Facebook post, Ukraine’s General Staff reported damage to 11 RVS-20000 tanks, three RVSPK-50000 tanks, a section of pipelines and an automated loading facility for petroleum products at the Samara linear production and dispatch station in the settlement of Prosvet, in Russia’s Samara region, following the October 2 strike.
The Samara station is a production facility and a key hub for receiving, storing and blending oil. It takes crude from trunk pipelines running from Tatarstan, western Siberia and other oil-producing Russian regions. The plant blends low-sulphur and high-sulphur crude from different fields to make the Urals export grade, which accounts for up to 50 percent of all Russian oil exports. The facility also supplies the Russian armed forces.
Separately, the General Staff confirmed damage to components of two gas treatment units, U-172 and U-272, and to the secondary distillation unit U-1731 at the Astrakhan gas processing plant after an October 4 strike on the facility in Astrakhan. The Astrakhan plant is one of the world’s largest producers of elemental sulphur, which is used in nitration processes to make explosives and gunpowder. The plant has a design capacity of up to 12 billion cubic metres of raw gas per year and produces up to 3.5 million tonnes of industrial sulphur annually, about 50 percent of all Russian output. The facility also supplies the Russian army.
