Ukraine's SBU orchestrates bold drone strikes on Russian military targets

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) organized a massive drone attack on a military airport and oil refineries in the Krasnodar region in Russia, reported on Saturday on Telegram by the Hromadske television, citing a source in the special services.

A massive drone attack on a military airport and oil refineries in the Russian Krasnodar region was organized by the SBU, states the Hromadske message.

The post added that a military airport in Kushchevskaya, which housed dozens of military aircraft, a radar station, and electronic warfare equipment, was attacked.

Earlier on Saturday morning, the Russian Radio Liberty reported on Telegram that a fire broke out at a refinery in Sloviansk in the Krasnodar region, which was caused by a morning drone attack.

The governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratyev, said that in the morning in the region, several drones were shot down, which "tried to attack" refineries and infrastructure in several districts of the region - we read in the statement.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, 66 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight over the Krasnodar region.

Anti-aircraft alarms were sounded overnight from Friday to Saturday in several Ukrainian regions, including Kherson, Mykolayiv, Kirovograd, and Dnipropetrovsk - reported the Ukrainian Truth portal, citing military sources.

In connection with missile strikes by the long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, which were carried out among others on targets in the western part of Ukraine, Polish and allied planes were scrambled.

The Ukrainian Minister of Energy reported on Saturday that Russia attacked energy infrastructure in three regions of Ukraine, destroying equipment and injuring at least one worker. DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, stated that four thermal power plants were hit.

Ukraine has so far lost about 80 percent of its thermal energy production capacity and about 35 percent of its hydropower production - the country's authorities reported.