Azov drones destroy a hidden Russian fuel base in Novoamvrosiivka sitting deep in occupied Donetsk Oblast

Ukrainian drone operators struck a hidden Russian fuel-logistics base in occupied Novoamvrosiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Militarnyi reported. The strike by the 1st “Azov” Corps of Ukraine’s National Guard damaged fuel reservoirs and blocked the railway supplying the site. The corps says the occupiers must now abandon the base entirely.

Operation Hell: finding what Russia hid

Russia spent a long time building a network of logistics hubs across occupied territory, considering them safe from Ukrainian attacks, the corps’ press service wrote. The Novoamvrosiivka base accumulated and supplied petroleum products for the Russian occupation grouping. 

“Petroleum products are the blood of war,” the corps said, announcing what it called Operation Hell.

They conducted thorough reconnaissance first, then hit the concealed base with precise strikes by Hornet drones. The attack damaged the fuel reservoirs and the base’s infrastructure.

The strikes also blocked the railway line Russia used to deliver materiel and supplies to the site, the report states.

The wider hunt for Russia’s rear fuel stores

The Novoamvrosiivka strike extends a run of Ukrainian attacks on fuel and logistics sites across the occupied east and south. Ukraine continues its “logistics lockdown,” targeting Russian supply trucks across the occupied territories, while the attacks on fuel and military facilities in the occupied East come almost every day.  

Ukrainian forces hit a Russian fuel and lubricants depot near Rozivka in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast on 10 July. Earlier this month, the SBU destroyed a logistics hub near Pokrovsk stocked with drones and ammunition, alongside fuel depots in Novohryhorivka and Chervone.

Ukraine’s General Staff also listed a railway bridge across the Siverskyi Donets and a fuel storage site in occupied Luhansk among six targets hit in a single day in early July. Railway fuel tankers in occupied Makiivka burned under drone strikes in late May.