Nadezhda is finalizing the consequences of occupation of the light petroleum products storage facility in Izyum, Kharkiv region, the company reported.
“Unfortunately, the cost of restoration of the oil storage facility will exceed the value of the asset, which was purchased in 2018,” the owner Viktor Batrachenko said. “The company stopped investing in this project.”
According to him, the company's specialists were admitted to the oil depot after the liberation of the city from Russian troops and demining of the territory. “The russists were based at the storage facility, and, while fleeing from the city, obviously aimed to cause the maximum damage: there is not a single surviving tank, the equipment was stolen, pipelines were deliberately blown up,” Viktor Batrachenko says.
The company announced that it had purchased the oil depot built in 1918 in order to solve the issue of logistics of fuel supplies to the Kharkiv, Poltava and Donetsk regions. In addition, constructing a liquefied gas storage facility was planned. The Izyum oil depot had a storage capacity of 15.4 thousand m3 (14 tanks) located at the Izyum station.
