Two more oil refineries in Russia have halted operations following drone strikes — Reuters
As a result of successful drone attacks, two strategic oil refineries owned by Rosneft have ceased operations.
These are the Tuapse and Novokuybyshevsk refineries, which suffered serious damage to their infrastructure.
According to Reuters, the Tuapse refinery, the only facility of its kind on Russia’s Black Sea coast, halted operations as early as April 16.
Following the initial attack on the port area, a second strike occurred on April 20, which completely knocked the plant out of commission.
The scale of the fire at the facility was so extensive that the smoke plume stretched over 300 kilometers. According to monitoring services, the cloud of burned petroleum products even reached Stavropol.
At the Tuapse plant, the tank farm and key logistics hubs were damaged, making it impossible to ship products.
As a result, the company was forced to mothball its primary processing unit with a capacity of 12 million tons per year.
A similar fate befell the Novokuybyshevsk Refinery, located in the Samara region. The plant halted production on April 18 after drones struck critical equipment.
As a result of the attack, both main crude oil refining units—AVT-11 and AVT-9—were put out of commission.
This facility has a capacity of 8.3 million tons of feedstock per year and is a major supplier of fuel to the Russian domestic market.
Rockets struck the “Molniya” drone manufacturing plant in Taganrog
Also, on April 18, the Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian TOS-1A “Sontsepok” heavy flamethrower system in the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukrainian defenders launched a successful strike on enemy logistics hubs, destroying fuel tankers near the temporarily occupied city of Luhansk.
In the Russian city of Tuapse in the Krasnodar Krai, explosions were heard on the night of April 16 amid a drone attack. The strikes may have targeted tanks at the Tuapse Oil Refinery, which is owned by Rosneft.
