A new drone bomber may have joined Ukraine’s escalating assault on Russia’s oil industry. On Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, drones operated by the Ukrainian 14th Separate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment struck a pumping station on the Druzhba pipeline along the Russian-Belarusian border in Bryansk Oblast.

Ukrainian forces use drones with FAB-250 bombs for attacks on Russia. In particular, such drones were used to attack the Druzhba oil pipeline station near Novozybkov, Defense Express reports. The unique aspect of this attack on the Russian oil pumping station was the unusual weapon system used for the operation,

Drone strikes were reported across multiple Russian regions, including Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tver, and Bryansk, igniting fires and triggering air defence responses. While there were no reported casualties, an oil refinery in the city of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, suffered significant damage.