Ukraine Hits Russia’s Caspian Oil Platforms – Nearly 1,000 km From Home

Ukrainian forces have struck two Russian offshore drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea used to support military fuel supplies overnight on Friday. Make us preferred on Google Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Bluesky Email Copy Copied A picture taken on April 10, 2011 shows the Russian LUKOIL ice-resistant fixed platform LSP-1, built at the Astrakhansky Korabel shipyard, intended to drill and operate wells and collect and pre-treat reservoir content at Korchagin’s oil field in the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea some 180 km (112 miles) outside Astrakhan. (Photo by MIKHAIL MORDASOV / AFP) Content Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Bluesky Email Copy Copied Flip Make us preferred on Google The Ukrainian military struck two Russian offshore drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea overnight on Friday, April 10. The strikes hit ice-resistant stationary platforms (LSP-1 and LSP-2) located at the Yuri Korchagin and V. Grayfer (formerly Rakushechnoye) oil fields, according to Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . The platforms are located in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, nearly 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) from the front – meaning the weapons used either transited third-nations or launched from undisclosed overseas bases. Bratchuk said the strikes targeted energy infrastructure supporting Moscow’s war effort. Ukrainian officials said the targeted facilities play a key role in supplying fuel and lubricants to Russian forces. The attack on the Caspian platform marks the latest in a series of Ukraine’s unprecedented strikes on Russian oil assets across the Baltic, Black, and now Caspian seas – just ahead of the Easter ceasefire agreed by both sides. The strikes on Baltic ports were estimated to have cost Moscow close to $1 billion in oil revenue within a week, with Kyiv’s foreign intelligence asserting that Russia has failed to boost oil revenue in spite of US sanctions relief due to the attacks. Kyiv has also previously targeted oil platforms and Russian warships in the Caspian Sea in December 2025, with an Iranian-flagged vessel suspected of carrying weapons from Iran to Russia also sunk in the region in January. Other Topics of Interest Kremlin Prepares for Orbán Defeat, Plans to Spin Loss as EU Plot Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is expected to be told that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his team themselves are to blame. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s head of the Presidential Office and top negotiator, said the strikes are used to strengthen Kyiv’s positions in upcoming talks with Moscow. On Wednesday, Ukrainian drones also struck an oil terminal in occupied Crimea’s Feodosia overnight. Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces (USF), said Kyiv targeted the oil terminal as part of a coordinated operation. According to him, the strike hit the site’s fuel storage infrastructure. The partisan group Atesh said its agents had conducted prior reconnaissance of the facility and passed targeting data to Ukrainian forces. The group described the terminal as a key fuel supply hub for Russian forces in Crimea. Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) also said its special forces had destroyed the Slavyanin – Russia’s last railway ferry in the Kerch Strait – overnight between Sunday and Monday. According to HUR, the Slavyanin was part of Russia’s so-called Kerch ferry crossing, which had been supplying Russian troops in occupied Crimea . The vessel also ferried fuel and lubricants, weapons and ammunition, as well as military equipment to the peninsula. Over the weekend, in Feodosia, operators from the USF 414th Separate Brigade’s “Madyar’s Birds” unit also struck a radar station belonging to the S-400 Triumf complex . Yuliia Zavadska is a news writer at Kyiv Post. She has experience in breaking news coverage, fact-checking, and digital journalism, with a focus on fast, accurate reporting and clear storytelling. Before joining Kyiv Post, she worked as a news feed editor for several leading Ukrainian media outlets.