A massive blaze rises over the oil terminal in Feodosia in the early hours of 13 October 2025. Screenshot: social media
A Ukrainian drone strike on the largest oil terminal in annexed Crimea in the early hours of Monday has led to a massive fire at the complex, Ukrainian independent media outlet Hromadske reported on Monday.
The strike on a marine oil terminal in the city of Feodosia, which was carried out by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), struck at least five oil storage tanks, triggering a huge blaze, a source in the SBU told The Kyiv Independent.
“The SBU continues to systematically reduce the enemy’s military, logistical and economic capacity to wage war against Ukraine,” the source told The Kyiv Independent, adding that as well as the oil terminal, the SBU had struck electricity substations both in Feodosia and Simferopol, Crimea’s administrative centre.
Meanwhile, a source told Russian Telegram channel ASTRA that at least 10 fuel tanks had been damaged in the strike, and over 800 people had been evacuated from the oil terminal overnight.
The Russian-installed governor of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, confirmed the Feodosia attack and that a fire had broken out at the facility, but said that there had been no casualties reported and that Russian air defence systems had downed 20 Ukrainian drones.
Monday morning’s strike is the latest in Ukraine’s months-long campaign to undermine Russia’s energy security. Feodosia is home to Crimea’s largest oil processing facility, which last came under Ukrainian attack on 6 October. The facility has been targeted numerous times over the past two years, including in October 2024 when over 1,000 people were evacuated from the oil terminal after a major strike.
Targeted Ukrainian missile and drone strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure have successfully neutralised approximately one sixth of Russia’s oil refining capacity, managing to bring widespread fuel shortages to Russia.
