The AFU Again Hit The Druzhba Oil Pipeline With Drones
- 7.09.2025, 9:58
The facility is of strategic importance for transportation of oil products from Belarus.
The Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia's Bryansk region has again been attacked by Ukrainian drones. This was reported on the morning of Sunday, September 7, in Telegram by the commander of the Unmanned Systems Force of the AFU Robert Brovdy, who has the call sign "Magyar".
The strike was carried out on the line-production dispatching station (LPDS) "8-N" Naitopovichi on the night of September 7, Brovdy writes. He stresses that this facility is of strategic importance for the transportation of oil products from Belarus, including the Mozyr and Novopolotsk refineries, to Russia.
LPDS "8-N", owned by JSC Transneft-Druzhba, is located in the village of Naitopovichi, Unechsky district, Bryansk region of the Russian Federation.
Robert Brovdi earlier reported about the Ukrainian UAV strike on the LPDS "8-N" on August 29. The day before, on August 28, Hungary banned the commander of the AFU's Unmanned Systems Force, an ethnic Hungarian, from entering the country, explaining his involvement in attacks on the Druzhba pipeline, which carries Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky then sharply criticized this decision of the Hungarian authorities.
Ukrainian attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline
On August 21, Ukrainian drones once again attacked the largest node of the Druzhba oil pipeline - the Unecha LPDS in the village of Vysokoye in the Unecha district of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. After that, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó spoke about the temporary cessation of supplies through the pipeline. He called the incident "another attack on the energy security" of his country. On August 28, the Hungarian energy company MOL announced the resumption of supplies.
Before that, oil pumping through the Druzhba trunk oil pipeline was halted temporarily due to a Ukrainian UAV strike on the Nikolskaya oil pumping station in Russia's Tambov region on August 18. That time Hungary and Slovakia reported the resumption of Russian oil supplies through the pipeline the next day, in the evening of August 19.
Ukrainian drones attacked the Unecha oil pumping station on August 13. Oil supplies from Russia to Hungary were also temporarily halted.