• Did Ukrainian drones hit oil refineries in Russia?
  • (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian 24 Mechanised brigade via AP) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ¡ª The Ukrainian military launched a wave of drones that struck three oil refineries inside southern Russia overnight, a security official said Friday, as Ukraine tries to disrupt the infrastructure that supplies the Russian military.
  • Is Ukraine still hitting oil refineries?
  • Ukraine Is Still Hitting Them. Black smoke billows after a drone strikes a refinery in Ryazan, Russia, earlier this year. On May 19, a Ukrainian drone slammed into the 70,000-barrel-a-day Slavyansk oil refinery in southern Russia¡¯s Krasnodar region, sending a fireball into the sky, according to videos circulating on social media.
  • Was Russia’s Tuapse Oil Refinery damaged by a Ukrainian drone attack?
  • MOSCOW, July 22 (Reuters) – Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery, its biggest on the Black Sea, was damaged in a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight which sparked a fire, Russian officials said on Monday, though the extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
  • Why is Ukraine targeting Russian refineries?
  • In targeting refineries, Ukraine is seeking to curtail Russian oil export revenue, the single biggest source of money for the federal budget, and to disrupt the domestic fuel market, experts say. Some experts say the impact will be minor because Russia¡¯s oil industry has flexibility built into its structure.
  • Did SBU drones hit oil refineries in Russia?
  • The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to announce the information publicly. SBU drones struck oil refineries in the Russian locations of Afipsky, Ilsky, and Krasnodar, which supply fuel for ships in Russia¡¯s Black Sea Fleet, the official said.
  • What happened to Russia’s oil refineries?
  • The damaged facilities, which are all hundreds of kilometres away from the border with Ukraine, account for about 10 per cent of Russia¡¯s total oil processing capacity. A Ukrainian official with knowledge of the attacks said the state security service used drones overnight in ¡°a series of special operations against enemy oil refineries¡±.