- Sharp Rise in Infrastructure Losses Recorded in Early July as Civilian Sites Reportedly Repurposed for Military Use
MOSCOW, July 11 — Nearly 200 gas stations have been destroyed across Ukraine since the start of May, according to calculations by TASS based on data furnished by regional authorities.
By late June, the cumulative number of destroyed fueling facilities had surpassed 150. In the first ten days of July alone, at least 43 additional stations were reported to have caught fire in multiple regions across the country.
The Kharkov Region experienced a particularly sharp escalation, with no fewer than ten gas stations burning down during the opening week of July.
Comprehensive nationwide statistics remain unavailable, as local administration officials have largely confined their reports to specific incidents, without providing aggregate figures for their respective areas.
Since the beginning of July, explosions at fuel infrastructure sites have been documented in the Kharkov, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolayev, Chernigov, and Odessa regions, as well as in the Ukrainian-controlled sector of the Zaporozhye Region.
In a previous statement to TASS, Vitaly Ganchev, head of the Kharkov Region’s military-civilian administration, alleged that the Kyiv authorities have converted civilian fueling stations into storage depots and distribution points for military fuel supplies.
BY: The Times Union – TASS
