The station is a central hub in the Transneft system used to receive, store, and blend crude from Western Siberia and Tatarstan into the Urals export grade, and it supports the Russian military. The complex houses 71 storage tanks with a total capacity exceeding 1.6 million cubic meters. Ukrainian officials described the strikes as an exercise of the right to self-defense under the UN Charter, intended to degrade the military and economic potential of the Russian Federation.
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Ukraine's Repeated Strikes Leave Russia's Samara Oil Hub Ablaze
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Large fires continue to rage at the Samara Linear Production Dispatching Station in Russia's Samara region on October 11, following a sequence of Ukrainian drone and missile attacks. The facility, located near Prosvet, was struck overnight on October 10, continuing a pattern of hits that began on October 2. Ukraine's General Staff confirmed that earlier strikes on October 7 and 8 destroyed four RVSPK-50000 storage tanks at the 'Samara-2' site, while an RVS-20000 tank at the 'Samara-1' site has remained smoldering since the first attack.
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