Ukraine's defence forces hit the Samara oil pumping station in Russia on 13 November, the Ukrainian General Staff said. The station is where Russia's export blend Urals is made. A fire is burning there, and several oil tanks are alight.
The General Staff says it was the second strike on Samara. Pipelines bring oil there from Tatarstan, Western Siberia and other Russian oil-producing regions. The oil is mixed to make Urals, which makes up to half of all Russian oil exports.
The General Staff calls the station the heart of Russia's oil industry, which it says funds the war. It says every tank hit in Samara strikes directly at Russia's main source of money. Moscow uses that money to pay for missiles, drones and the war against Ukraine.
The General Staff also confirmed a strike the same day on the Lipetsk-2 military airfield in the Lipetsk region, a base of Russian military aviation.
A hangar for the special equipment that services aircraft was hit, along with an aviation fuel tank and the airfield's central command and control post.