A Russian drone strike has damaged a SOCAR fuel station in southern Ukraine, as both Russia and Ukraine reported new attacks on energy infrastructure and other targets.
Azerbaijan has summoned Mikhail Yevdokimov to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest a Russian drone strike that hit a SOCAR petrol station in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region.
According to the ministry, Azerbaijan handed the Russian ambassador a diplomatic note expressing a strong protest over the attack, which took place on the evening of 5 July.
The ministry said the incident was not isolated, noting that other SOCAR facilities in Ukraine (including a gas distribution compressor station and an oil depot in Odesa) had previously been struck or damaged.
It said the attacks had caused significant financial losses and left some SOCAR employees injured.
Azerbaijan stated that the recurrence of such incidents despite repeated warnings suggested the strikes were being carried out deliberately.
Baku stressed the need to uphold obligations under the Vienna Conventions to ensure the protection of diplomatic and consular premises.
The Foreign Ministry called on Russia to conduct a comprehensive investigation into all incidents involving Azerbaijani facilities, provide explanations and fulfil its international obligations to protect civilian infrastructure as well as diplomatic and consular missions.
AnewZ can exclusively report that three Russian Shahed-type drones struck a SOCAR filling station in the village of Nechayane, in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, on Saturday evening. The attack caused an explosion and damaged the station's administrative building.
SOCAR Energy Ukraine told Azertag that no one was injured because staff had followed air raid procedures and taken shelter before the strike.
The company said: "Thanks to pre-emptive safety measures, strict adherence to safety instructions during air raid alerts, and the availability of a shelter, more serious consequences were avoided."
The attack is the latest in a series of strikes on fuel facilities in Ukraine. Recently, Russian forces have reportedly carried out mass drone attacks on petrol stations in several regions.
Last summer, two SOCAR filling stations in the Zhytomyr region were badly damaged in explosions. In August, a Russian drone attack on a SOCAR oil depot in the Odesa region sparked a fire and left four people seriously injured.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities said Ukrainian drones targeted several regions overnight.
Officials said attacks damaged the Baltic Sea ports of Vysotsk and Ust-Luga, one of Russia's main oil export terminals. Local governor Alexander Drozdenko said 56 Ukrainian drones had been shot down in the Leningrad region.
In Crimea, the Russian-appointed governor Sergei Aksyonov said a woman was killed in the city of Kerch in what he described as a Ukrainian drone strike. Authorities in Sevastopol also reported a temporary power blackout before electricity supplies were restored.
Regional officials in Kaluga said a drone strike caused a fire at an industrial site, while authorities in the Yaroslavl region said two people were injured by shrapnel after another attack. They added that around 70 drones had been intercepted overnight.
The latest exchanges underline the growing focus on energy infrastructure as both sides seek to disrupt supply lines and logistics.
The fighting comes as the war continues with no immediate sign of a breakthrough, despite repeated calls for a ceasefire from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and international efforts to revive peace negotiations.
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