US EditionUkraine’s Gloves Are Off in Its Energy War with Russia. How Much Can It Increase the Pressure?
Ukraine's Security Service hit Russia's largest Caspian offshore oil field with four drone strikes, stopping production from 20+ wells and targeting key energy exports.
- On Dec. 11, 2025, Ukraine's Security Service struck the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the northern Caspian Sea using long-range drones, halting oil and gas output from more than 20 wells.
- The Vladimir Filanovsky field, a major post‑Soviet discovery, belongs to a Lukoil subsidiary and was discovered in 2005 with production starting in 2016.
- SBU sources said at least four hits were recorded on the offshore platform, while Russian forces reported shooting down 287 Ukrainian drones overnight and temporarily closing Moscow airports.
- With no comment from the Russian Defense Ministry on the claimed attack, the SBU reported that the explosions targeted enterprises working for the war effort to grind down Russia's war machine.
- The field holds 129 million tons of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of gas, with volumes exported via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, highlighting its strategic role in energy exports.
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Lukoil Rig Halts Oil Production After Ukrainian Drone Attack – Reports
A major Russian oil and gas production platform in the Caspian Sea has halted production after a first-of-its-kind Ukrainian drone attack, multiple news outlets reported Thursday, citing Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). According to Bloomberg, Reuters and the Kyiv Independent, at least four long-range drones hit the Filanovsky rig, halting output from more than 20 oil and gas wells operated by Russia’s second-largest oil company Lukoil. “This i…
Ukrainian forces attacked the Filanovsky oil field of the Russian company Lukoil on the Caspian Lake, Bloomberg reported.
The Ukrainian Security Service drones stopped the work of the Filanovsky oil rig belonging to the company Lukoil-Nyzhnevolzhskneft, reporting to the DW source in the intelligence service.
Follow the news of the war in Ukraine on Thursday 11 December 2025 live all day on ladepeche.fr.
Source from the Ukrainian City of Kyiv Post Security Service said the platform was hit four times. The long-acting drones operated by the Alpha Special Operations Centre from...
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