On June 10, drones of Ukraine's Defense Forces attacked two linear production and dispatch stations of the company "Transneft — Verkhnaya Volga" in Vladimir Oblast — "Vtorovo" (Kameshkovsky District) and "Lobkovo" (Aleksandrovsky District). The distance to the border is approximately 700 km. Fires were detected by the NASA FIRMS monitoring service: the fire at "Vtorovo" started at 03:13, at "Lobkovo" — at 05:04.
What are these facilities
Both stations are part of Russia's main oil products pipeline system. "Vtorovo" pumps primarily diesel fuel from refineries in the central part of the country to major oil bases in the Moscow region and the capital's airports — Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Vnukovo. "Lobkovo" is located closer to the Moscow Oblast border and performs a similar function in the same direction.
The strike on "Vtorovo" is not the first. In May 2025, special forces from the SBU's Special Operations Center "Alpha" had already hit this station: at that time, a fire covered 800 square meters.
"The SBU is already preparing new special operations. The intensity of strikes on Russian territory will only increase."
Yevhen Khmara, Head of the SBU
Tactical context
Strikes on oil infrastructure are a systematic campaign, not isolated actions. The goal is not only to reduce export revenues but also to complicate fuel logistics for the army. Diesel fuel is critical for armored vehicles, supply convoys, and military rail transport.
- "Vtorovo" is a repeatedly targeted facility: recovery after the first strike did not protect the station from the second.
- "Lobkovo" borders Moscow Oblast — geographically, it is the closest point of the oil pipeline system to Moscow that has been successfully struck.
- Vladimir Oblast Governor Alexander Avdeev confirmed fires at both facilities, officially stating — "no casualties."
Russia's fuel vulnerability is not solely a consequence of Ukrainian strikes. As LIGA.net analyzed, the crisis was also caused by systemic management failures in the industry: refineries are chronically underfunded, and logistics infrastructure was built without accounting for military risks.
What's next
Currently, the exact extent of damage at both stations has not been confirmed by independent sources — neither the ISW nor satellite imagery with sufficient resolution yet provide a complete picture. The key question is whether the attack has put "Vtorovo" out of service for a second time — and whether "Transneft" has reserve pumping routes that would allow it to bypass both nodes simultaneously.
