Ukrainian forces struck an oil facility in Russia's Samara region and the Lipetsk-2 military airfield in Lipetsk region, Ukraine's General Staff said on Saturday, November 14, in the latest round of Kyiv's deep-strike campaign against Russian energy and military infrastructure.

Source: The Kyiv Independent

The General Staff reported a fire at the Samara linear production and dispatch station near the village of Prosvet in Samara region, some 950 kilometres east of Ukraine-controlled territory, with several oil storage tanks on fire. The strikes themselves were carried out on November 13 and announced a day later.

Source: Kyiv Post

Why the Samara hub matters

The station is one of the most important hubs in Russia's energy export system. It receives oil through pipelines from Tatarstan, western Siberia and other Russian regions, and the crude is blended there to produce Urals, Russia's flagship export blend, which accounts for up to half of the country's oil exports.

The facility has been a repeated target during Ukraine's recent campaign of deep strikes against Russian oil infrastructure. Awaaz Punjab reported an earlier drone strike on the same Prosvet station on November 2.

Read the earlier report on the Prosvet station strike. Samara oil station hit in November 2 drone strike

Lipetsk-2 airfield also hit, Kyiv says

The General Staff also confirmed a strike on the Lipetsk-2 airfield in Lipetsk region, located more than 340 kilometres east of the Ukrainian border. On November 13, a hangar storing special equipment for aircraft maintenance, an aviation fuel tank and the airfield's central command and control post were hit, according to the General Staff.

Lipetsk-2 has been targeted repeatedly. The base is known to host Russian Su-34, Su-35 and MiG-31 aircraft, and in December 2025 pro-Ukrainian partisans set fire to two Russian Su-30 fighter jets at an airfield near Lipetsk, according to Ukraine's military intelligence agency, known as HUR.

All of the damage claims in this report come from Ukraine's General Staff. Russia has not confirmed the strikes or the reported damage, and the claims could not be independently verified. The announcement follows Ukraine's massive overnight drone barrage of November 12-13, in which Russia said its air defences intercepted 1,198 long-range drones.

Read the earlier report on the record drone wave and the Volgograd refinery fire. Ukraine fires nearly 1,200 drones at Russia