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Ukrainian Drones Strike Russian Oil Refineries

Ukraine has launched a series of attacks on targets across Russia, utilizing at least 25 drones and nine rockets in a sweeping assault.


Both Russia and Ukraine have employed drones to target critical infrastructure, military installations, and troop concentrations during their more than two-year war. I Photo: Генеральний штаб ЗСУ / General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine



Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly reported for Reuters that the attack triggered a fire at a major refinery in the world's second-largest oil exporter, according to one Russian official.


Both Russia and Ukraine have employed drones to target critical infrastructure, military installations, and troop concentrations during their more than two-year war, with Kyiv targeting Russian refineries and energy facilities in recent months.


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Russia's defense ministry claimed to have downed 25 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, including Moscow, Leningrad, Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Tula, and Oryol.


Russian officials reported attacks on numerous energy facilities, including a fire at Lukoil's NORSI refinery and the destruction of a drone on the outskirts of Kirishi, home to Russia's second-largest oil refinery.


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Gleb Nikitin, governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, posted a picture of the NORSI refinery and stated that emergency services were working to extinguish a fire there. The NORSI refinery has a capacity to process about 17 million metric tons of oil per year, or 340,000 barrels per day, and typically produces 11% of Russia's gasoline.


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The Baza Telegram channel, which has close ties to Russian law enforcement, reported that Lukoil's Nizhny Novgorod refinery had also been hit, providing images of a plume of black smoke rising into the air and a significant fire.




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