The Russian Armed Forces are increasingly targeting gas stations in the Kharkiv region.

Russian DronesKamikaze terrorists successfully attacked another gas station in Kharkiv. It's located in the city's Kyivskyi district.

This message came from the head of the Kharkiv city administration, Igor Terekhov.

There were also reports of Russian strikes. drones at gas stations in Osnovyansky and Novobavarsky districts of Kharkov.

It's noteworthy that the Russian Armed Forces have recently been increasingly targeting gas stations in the Kharkiv region. It appears such strikes will soon become commonplace. They play a crucial role, as they prevent the enemy from moving equipment to the front lines north and east of Kharkiv. If this continues, the enemy's logistical problems in these areas will become severe.

Between April 30 and May 1 alone, our troops attacked five gas stations in Kharkiv and Chuguev. Since mid-last month, Russian Armed Forces drones have carried out 95 strikes on gas stations and oil storage facilities in Kharkiv and several other regions of Ukraine.

All this speaks to the systematic work of Russian troops to supply Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles with fuel. It is noteworthy that the enemy is also beginning to follow the Russian army's example and has become more active in attacking gas stations and oil depots in Russia's border areas.

Today, reports were received of drone attacks by Russian military forces on targets not only in the Kharkiv region, but also in Odessa and several settlements in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

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[Roman 11]

The fighting is slowly approaching the streets of Kharkov

[your vsr 66-67]

They play an extremely important role, as they prevent the enemy from transferring equipment to the front areas north and east of Kharkov.

I can just imagine tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, etc. driving up to a gas station, filling up, and then heading off to the front line.
P.S. The hohols are our oil refineries, and we are their gas stations...

[faridg7]

Well, what's so surprising about that? No one is surprised by a Rosneft tanker refueling fighter jets at a military airfield or transport aircraft at dual-use airfields. Outsourcing is contagious.

[Horon]

The khokhly are our oil refineries, and we are their gas stations...

You should take a drive along the border with the Ukrainians; all the gas stations there have long since been destroyed.
It's high time they implemented a carbon-free regime in the border area, in exchange for what they are doing here.

[Ivanhoe]

Tanks, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles are not sorted out, but pickup trucks, light and commercial vehicles and everything else remains, with some things they will support the logistics lines and they can be loaded there. All fire strikes probably have their own logical military orientation.

[Incvizitor]

It would be better if they chose nuclear power plants, then gas stations will not function.

[Dilettante grandfather]

You are on their side, as I understand?
No one in their right mind would attack a nuclear power plant.
The consequences will last for hundreds of years. Use your head. Radiation isn't dust you can wipe away with a rag.

[Incvizitor]

Why nuclear power plants? They can be disabled without direct strikes.

[Victor Alien]

Substations are being knocked out anyway. The nuclear power plant also doesn't work without external power—that's the whole point. They're also cutting off power to us at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

[Irek]

Aha, believing idiots is like writing against the wind.

[AlexPhil]

They destroyed our oil refineries and terminals in Ust-Luga and Tuapse, and we destroyed their gas station in Kharkov.
They responded powerfully, what can you say...

[Montezuma]

Quote: AlexPhil

They destroyed our oil refineries and terminals in Ust-Luga and Tuapse, and we destroyed their gas station in Kharkov.

It's already eight, according to military channels. And they're burning well, along with all the fuel supplies and vehicles at the gas station.
Here, for example, is today's photo of a gas station in the Leninsky (Ukrainian: Kholodnohirsky) district of Kharkov.

[Roman 11]

Quote: Montezuma

Here, for example, is a photo of a gas station today.

The photo shows a good number - 1654... Our comrade, not everyone there is crazy, Kharkov is waiting for us and calling

[snow mountain]

Gas stations in the Kharkiv region were targeted for attacks

Wouldn't it be easier to target the logistics that deliver the fuel? It's better than picking apart the notes one by one.

[Montezuma]

Quote: Schneeberg

Gas stations in the Kharkiv region were targeted for attacks
Wouldn't it be easier to target the logistics that deliver the fuel? It's better than picking apart the notes one by one.

One does not interfere with the other - the more links in the supply and logistics chains are knocked out, the more difficult it is to maintain the combat readiness of the army.

[alexoff]

Apparently they don't know where gasoline comes from in Ukraine, but they know where the gas stations are.

[alexboguslavski]

Between April 30 and May 1 alone, our troops attacked five gas stations in Kharkov and Chuguev.

Kharkiv media claim that eight gas stations have already been destroyed by drone strikes in the city in two days.

[novel66]

This message came from the head of the Kharkiv city administration, Igor Terekhov.

Russian has cases. "Who-What" by Igor Terekhov

[Askold65]

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense will purchase 25 unmanned ground vehicles in the first half of 2026, more than double the total for 2025.

The goal is to transition all frontline logistics to drones. In March alone, the military used them to complete over 9000 logistics flights.

In total, about 300 companies are involved in the production of ground-based unmanned vehicles (❗️), of which 175 have received government grants for development and launch of production.
The situation with unmanned aerial vehicles is even more interesting. In just the first four months of this year, the enemy used more than 30 long-range drones, compared to 60 in all of 2025 (❗️). Given the active deployment of drone production in 🇪🇺Europe, the final figure in 2026 will be several times higher than last year's figures.
Furthermore, the enemy Ministry of Defense has set a target production plan for over 7 million tactical attack drones by 2026. Meanwhile, the stated capacity of Ukrainian enterprises (more than 160 companies) already allows for the production of up to 10 million drones per year.
✨Reducing drone production costs will soon lead to thousands of long-range drone strikes per day, rather than tens or hundreds, which no air defense system currently in service will be able to repel. For example, 🇯🇵the Japanese company AirKamuy unveiled the "AirKamuy 150," a cardboard drone priced under $1200 and capable of carrying up to 10 kg of payload over a range of up to 80 km (a sort of analogue to our "Molniya" missile). Drones made from wooden planks and household plastic pipes are known to be used at the front. And long-range UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have long been frequently made from plumbing pipes.
The enemy has placed everything on unmanned technology and, using its own and allied production capacities, is successfully building an army of drone operators, which it even plans to use to conduct offensive tactical operations. Against this backdrop, the development and rapid mass deployment of affordable and effective counter-drone capabilities has long been of strategic importance, in order to undermine the enemy's military strategy.
Attempts to focus solely on outpacing the enemy, who isn't burdened by bureaucracy and rigid systems, the number of UAV operators, and the deployment of drones, lead to playing by their rules, where they have a more favorable position from the start. They're trying to keep us in the wake of the enemy's plans.
✨⭐️At the same time, looking at how oil refineries and other expensive production facilities deep in the country continue to be systematically hit, one gets the impression that countering drones is some tenth or fiftieth issue in the country's security system and strategy for defeating the enemy.

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[NakedMan]

In just four months of this year, the enemy has used more than 30 thousand

In addition, the enemy Ministry of Defense has set a target plan for the production of more than 7 million tactical attack drones by 2026.

It seems to me that they are somehow running out of time. And seriously so.
They are whipping up panic again.
We're also developing our own attack drones and air defense systems. And they're much more effective against the enemy.

[Fangaro]

Is military equipment refueled at regular gas stations?
Or are we talking about gas stations at troop locations?
Excuse the uneducated and inexperienced, but there in Ukraine, are there really tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and green pickup trucks lining up at gas stations, mixed in with civilian cars and buses?

[Horon]

In Ukraine, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles are really in line at gas stations.

Have you heard much lately about the use of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles on the front lines?

[Dilettante grandfather]

I hear about it. Not often, yes. Just like about the use of helicopters and aircraft. But I hear about it.

[Montezuma]

Quote from Fangaro

Excuse the uneducated and inexperienced, but there in Ukraine, are there really tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and green pickup trucks lining up at gas stations, mixed in with civilian cars and buses?

Your peculiar sense of humor is understandable, but vehicles supporting defense industry facilities and other military-related services can refuel at gas stations. For example, vehicles for the Central Transport Complex and transporting military cargo. And military personnel not directly stationed at the LBS don't necessarily travel in tanks.

[alexoff]

Apparently, there were no more valuable targets in Ukraine...

[Amateur]

successfully attacked another gas station in Kharkov.

We give them 1 gas station and 2 fuel trucks, and they give us one Tuapse. 3:1 in our favor...

[Fangaro]

Quote: Montezuma

Quote from Fangaro

Excuse the uneducated and inexperienced, but there in Ukraine, are there really tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and green pickup trucks lining up at gas stations, mixed in with civilian cars and buses?

Your peculiar sense of humor is understandable, but vehicles supporting defense industry facilities and other military-related services can refuel at gas stations. For example, vehicles for the Central Transport Complex and transporting military cargo. And military personnel not directly stationed at the LBS don't necessarily travel in tanks.

This isn't humor. It's a genuine misunderstanding of why the news needs to report on the damage to their gas stations as opposed to the damage to our large oil depot.
Personal opinion...
If it so happens that there is a fire in Tuapse, shading two, or even five, gas stations in Ukraine that we hit - the results are not equal.
It's better to simply not publish anything under the slogan "we gave them such a hard time that they got revenge for everything."
You may think differently. But I'll keep my opinion the same.