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1557th day. Ukrainian drones attacked oil depots in Armavir and Feodosia. Two planes and an Iskander missile system were destroyed in Taganrog, the Ukrainian Armed Forces claim.
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On the night of May 30, Ukrainian drones struck Taganrog in the Rostov region, Armavir in the Krasnodar Territory and Feodosia in the annexed Crimea.
Governor of the Rostov region Yuri Slyusar said that a tanker and fuel tanks, as well as an administrative building, caught fire in the port of Taganrog. People, he said, were not injured.
The mayor of the city, Svetlana Kambulova, said that the port’s “loading infrastructure at the pier” was also damaged, and windows in several buildings in the city were broken, including a kindergarten. Two people, according to her, were injured from debris from a drone that hit a private house. After the attack, the city authorities decided to “expand the boundaries of the state of emergency,” which was introduced on May 27 after the previous drone strike.
The fire in the port was extinguished, the mayor reported, and no oil spill occurred.
The commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert Brovdi (call sign “Madyar”), said that a tanker of the “shadow fleet” and an oil depot “Kurgannefteprodukt” were hit in the port of Taganrog.
In addition, according to him, two Tu-142 aircraft and an Iskander missile system were destroyed at a military airfield in Taganrog. Brovdi published a video of attacks on the airfield and on the tanker .
In addition, Brovdi said, drones struck an oil depot in Feodosia in annexed Crimea. At the base, as can be seen in footage filmed by eyewitnesses, a strong fire started.
In Crimea, due to attacks by Ukrainian drones on the federal highway R-280 Novorossiya, which connects the peninsula with the Rostov region, a gasoline shortage began. At gas stations you can buy no more than 20 liters per day, while many gas stations simply do not have fuel.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky separately noted the drone strike on the oil depot in Armavir. “Our new long-range sanctions, and these are 500 kilometers from our state border,” Zelensky wrote in his telegram channel.
“We are quite rightly returning the war to where it came from. Russia could have ended its aggression long ago, but it chose to delay and continue,” he added.
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Сергей (Новороссийск) . Previously, a very long time ago, when I watched military chronicles from Syria, I thought: well, how do people live there under constant bombing, why don’t they leave? And then I already received the answer to my question, when arrivals around Novorossiysk first began, first by unmanned boats, and then by drones. It turned out that the person is extremely adaptive to any circumstances. The first few times it was scary, but then you get used to it and live as if nothing had happened, sometimes only grumbling after a hard shift: “Again sirens, explosions, let me sleep.”
Even when it flies next door, there is no fear, you think of it as an accident. It’s the same as dying in a traffic accident: it’s just the way the circumstances turned out. It’s all the more difficult to change your lifestyle when you love your city and don’t want to change your job and life for something else. You adapt to the changing rules of the game. And so many others live; few of my circle of friends have left the city, let alone gone abroad. I think other cities, such as Moscow, will simply get used to it over time and move on as if nothing had happened.
What is more surprising is the reaction of society to the blockages, rather than the war and constant attacks. This speaks quite clearly about the current priorities in people’s lives.