A key oil processing unit at the Moscow Refinery—which serves as its heart—has been damaged, according to the SBU
The Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with other units of the Armed Forces, carried out a successful strike on the Moscow Oil Refinery, which is a key supplier of fuel to the capital of the aggressor country.
As a result of a precision strike, a massive fire broke out on the grounds of the strategic facility, which was captured by eyewitnesses and satellite imagery.
The main strike was delivered to the most critical point of the Russian fuel giant’s infrastructure.
According to preliminary information from the military, the explosions damaged a key crude oil processing unit, which is effectively the “heart” of the plant.
“Soldiers from the SBU’s ‘Alpha’ Special Operations Center, together with other Defense Forces, carried out a successful strike on the Moscow Oil Refinery (Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation). The distance to the target from Ukraine’s state border is approximately 500 kilometers,” SBU officials clarified.
The attacked facility is of colossal importance for ensuring the functioning of the entire Moscow region and financing the occupying forces.
It is Moscow’s largest oil refinery, directly supplying a significant portion of the Russian capital’s fuel market.
The petrochemical giant supplies key volumes of gasoline and over 50% of the region’s diesel fuel, as well as jet fuel for Moscow’s airports.
In parallel with the strike on the Moscow region, Ukrainian special services carried out another successful operation in the southern part of the aggressor country.
That same night, SBU drones successfully struck the infrastructure of the "Poltavskaya" oil depot, located in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation.
A massive fire also broke out at this southern facility following a series of powerful explosions, which local emergency services were unable to extinguish for a long time.
The SBU press center has officially released details of the large-scale special operation.
