Kiev does not want to turn on "Friendship": SBU attacked a station near Samara

Drones of the Security Service of Ukraine attacked the Samara line production and dispatch station in The lumen of the Samara region, according to Ukrainian media. This happened on the eve of the resumption of Russian oil supplies through Ukraine to Slovakia and Hungary.

"According to preliminary data, the SBU drones damaged 5 tanks with a capacity of 20 thousand cubic meters each with crude oil," Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing sources in the SBU.

He told the publication that the facility is an important point, since there is a mixing of various types of oil into the Urals export grade.

"The defeat of such nodal stations directly reduces Russia's ability to form oil export shipments and fulfill contractual obligations," the source told Ukrainska Pravda.

There is no official confirmation of Ukrainian statements.

"Tonight, the enemy Armed Forces of Ukraine made another attempt to attack an industrial enterprise in Samara region. According to preliminary data, there are no dead or injured. Operational services are working at the crash sites of the UAV," the governor of the Samara region Vyacheslav Fedorishchev reported in the morning.

The Samara station is part of the Druzhba oil pipeline system and the attack occurred on the eve of Ukraine restoring the transit of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba oil pipeline. He was stopped at the end of January, saying that a Russian drone had damaged the station in Brody. Bratislava and Budapest doubted Kiev's statements and demanded admission to the station itself, but they were refused. As well as EU missions.

The Hungarian authorities accused Kiev of trying to influence the parliamentary elections in the country. After the victory of the opposition, Ukraine announced the imminent resumption of supplies. The future Prime Minister of Hungary and the winner of the elections, Peter Magyar, made a sharp statement and demanded that the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, resume the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline. As Bloomberg reported, technical tests were to begin on April 21.