Day: August 13, 2025
The 7 August strike on the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan’s (SOCAR) storage facility in Ukraine’s Odessa region is more than an isolated act of wartime vandalism. It represents a calculated escalation by Moscow, striking not merely at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure but at a foreign commercial asset with geopolitical resonance. Carried out with Iranian-supplied Shahed drones, the attack underscores the deepening strategic convergence between Russia and Iran, a partnership increasingly weaponised to disrupt regional energy flows.
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