Reuters: Ukrainian Strikes on 10 Oil Refineries Knock Out 17% of Russia’s Refining Capacity

Ukrainian drone strikes on ten Russian oil refineries have disabled at least 17% of the refining capacity of the aggressor country.

Reuters reported on this.

They calculated that this figure is approximately 1.1 million barrels per day.

According to Reuters, these attacks have disrupted Moscow’s oil refining and exports, caused gasoline shortages in some parts of Russia, and were a response to strikes on Ukraine’s gas and energy infrastructure.

Analysts believe this move by Kyiv is an attempt to raise the stakes in potential peace negotiations.

The strikes on oil refineries are taking place amid peak seasonal demand for gasoline in Russia from tourists and farmers.

Russia tightened its ban on gasoline exports in July due to a sharp increase in domestic demand.

This has led to fuel shortages in parts of the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, as well as in southern regions of Russia and the Russian Far East.

Over the past month, Ukrainian strike drones have hit Lukoil’s Volgograd oil refinery, Rosneft’s Ryazan refinery, as well as the Novoshakhtinsk and Syzran refineries.

The oil refinery in Saratov, the Afipsky refinery in Krasnodar Krai, and the oil refinery in Novokuybyshevsk in Russia’s Samara region were also targeted.

The drones specifically targeted and damaged critically important equipment at the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region, without which it cannot operate.

Strike drones also targeted one of the largest gas processing plants in Europe – Russia’s Gazprom Ust-Luga facility.