Ukraine’s unmanned forces have knocked out a key pump station on Russia’s Druzhba pipeline, triggering a full halt of oil flows that feed Hungary, Slovakia, and other European customers, according to multiple battlefield and official reports.
Open-source monitoring flagged the severity, citing NASA FIRMS fire detections at the Novonikolske/Nikolskoye hub in Russia’s Tambov region. Satellite imagery “show[s] that large parts of the facility are completely destroyed.”
The same source added that earlier hits on two pump stations in Bryansk make it “obvious that the entire Druzhba pipeline from the Tambov region… all the way to the west is rendered inoperative for quite some time.”
Kyiv’s side formalized the message. The Unmanned Systems Forces announced a “complete halt of oil pumping for an indefinite period,” saying the Nikolskoye station “has been destroyed.”
A separate statement attributed the operation to the 14th UAV Regiment, with the unit’s representative, MAGYAR, claiming “complete stoppage of oil pumping for an indefinite period” after the “Birds of the 14th Regiment” struck the site.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó “reports that Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline have fully halted.” Another source shared what it described as footage of damage in the Bryansk segment and asserted that pumping “from Russia to Hungary and Europe has been stopped.”
The strike package appears coordinated across nodes. Hits on Bryansk facilities five days earlier preceded the Tambov fire, lining up with the Unmanned Systems Forces’ description of an indefinite suspension.
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