Ukraine obliterates critical part of Russia’s Druzhba oil pipeline

Ukrainian forces obliterated a critical part of Russia’s Druzhba oil pipeline overnight — as Kyiv fought back against Moscow’s ramped-up attacks despite ongoing peace deal talks.

Ukraine bombed the Unecha oil pumping station in the Bryansk region late Thursday, according to the commander of Ukraine’s unmanned systems forces, Robert Brovdy.

Footage posted on Telegram showed a huge inferno raging at a facility with multiple fuel tanks in the wake of the strikes.

Bryansk regional Gov. Alexander Bogomaz said Ukraine had fired HIMARS rockets and drones at the region in a combined attack, setting the energy facility ablaze.

The Unecha station, which is a critical part of Russia’s Europe-bound Druzhba oil pipeline, supplies oil to Hungary and Slovakia.

The Hungarian and Slovakian governments both said supplies to their countries could be cut for at least five days in the wake of the latest strike.

“The physical and geographical reality is that without this pipeline, the safe supply of our countries is simply not possible,” Foreign Ministers Peter Szijjarto and Juraj Blanar said in a letter to Europe’s executive Commission on Friday.

Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the past few weeks — despite a push by President Trump to reach a deal to end the war.

Moscow has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, while Kyiv has damaged several Russian refineries in a bid to disrupt Russian energy exports that are financing Russia’s invasion.

With Post wires