Ukraines SBU Claims Deep-Strike Drone Campaign Against Three Stavropol Oil Depots and Shadow-Fleet Tanker Avero

Analysis
Four shadow-fleet tankers hit in ten days alongside repeated deep strikes on Stavropol's depot cluster indicate Kyiv has institutionalized a standing interdiction campaign against Russia's oil export logistics rather than executing episodic raids, pairing naval drone strikes on Suezmax tankers with long-range UAV hits on inland storage to target the sanctions-evasion supply chain at both maritime and terrestrial nodes. Confidence is moderate: four of five accounts trace to the same SBU statement, with the fifth outlet's Zelensky tally also rooted in Ukrainian government channels and no independent Russian, wire, or imagery corroboration in the record. This cycle narrows the depot target set to Stavropol alone after last Thursday's strikes spanned Tver and Stavropol, while extending the campaign's reach with a fourth tanker hit. The discrepancy between SBU's count and Zelensky's higher tally more plausibly reflects aggregation of separately reported General Staff strikes than a factual inconsistency, and sustained tempo against the shadow fleet raises the cost of routing Russian crude to Asian buyers.