Refinery Strikes
Ukrainian Forces Reportedly Target Russian Refineries and Factories in Latest Drone Campaign
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Ukrainian forces reportedly struck a refinery in Perm and the Iskra electronics plant in Ulyanovsk on Sept. 25, with witnesses reporting a fire at the refinery; explosions were also reported in Voronezh, though damage there was unclear. Russian authorities had not publicly confirmed or commented on the reported strikes, and some details remained unverified. The attacks come amid a wider Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil infrastructure, including reported strikes on refineries in Ufa and Samara and on facilities in Saratov, which Kyiv says support Russia’s military or fuel supply. A separate analysis says repeated strikes have disrupted Russian refining and contributed to fuel shortages, though the scale of the effects is uncertain. Russia has continued attacks across Ukraine, with recent strikes reported to have killed civilians and damaged residential, industrial and energy infrastructure.
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Article 1 reports that a synthetic rubber manufacturing plant in Voronezh was damaged, although the Kyiv Independent said it was unclear whether any targets there had been damaged.
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The Ufa refinery struck on Sept. 21–22 has an annual processing capacity of about 7.5 million tons; Samara’s Kuibyshev refinery processes about 7 million tons annually, according to the Ukrainian side’s account cited by APA.
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The analysis says Ukraine has shifted toward precision attacks on harder-to-repair refinery units, including crude distillation units and fluid catalytic crackers, and has used multiple drone waves against individual facilities to overwhelm passive defenses.
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The Kyiv Independent reported that Russian missile strikes overnight on Sept. 24 killed two people and injured eight in Kyiv, damaging a maternity hospital and residential buildings.
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