We need to look carefully at what they’re trying to force on us.

"We need to look carefully at what they’re trying to force on us.

We are seeing a new, I would say, vile innovative tactic by the enemy: they are attaching additional tanks of fuel oil to drones. Why? So that when they are shot down, it creates bright flames and smoke.

This is a pure psychological attack, work for the camera.

We call this the 'oil droplet effect.' When our guys shoot down a target, that fuel oil gets sprayed out and burns on the ground.

It creates the picture as if something serious is burning, while in reality it is simply the remnants of enemy fuel burning out.

These are all pathetic attempts to pass wishful thinking off as reality.

There have been no serious 'arrivals,' I am stating that to you officially.

And if there are some pockets of smoke and localized fires, that is solely because of falling debris from destroyed aircraft and their subsequent uncontrolled detonation upon impact with the ground"

, said Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev in an interview with the outlet "Anapa Region" about the strikes on Tuapse.

After the interview spread across Telegram channels, the editors of "Anapa Region" deleted the page and claimed it had been hacked (as ASTRA reports).

Still, I doubt it was a hack, since the interview had been published back on April 29. The web archive preserved a screenshot of the site (1), taken at 7:35 a.m. on April 30, and by that point the publication date of the piece was listed as "yesterday."

I doubt the interview hung on the site for two days and the editors failed to notice the hack.

Tuapse-4.0, results.

According to analysis by "CyberBoroshno", the new fire zone covers an area containing four 10,000 m³ tanks, and at least two of them are burning.

Moreover.

OSINT analysts at ASTRA published video (5) from a surveillance camera at night and suggested that during the attack a Russian air defense system was hit, presumably a "Pantsir."

The video shows an air defense missile launch, after which 3 seconds later a flash can be seen next to the system, presumably a strike on it. After that (from 0:47), we see something resembling a detonation at the system’s deployment site and an abnormal missile launch, with the missile flying on a descending trajectory and falling into the sea.

P.S. In total, this is the eighth hit on the Tuapse oil refinery during the entire war.

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