09/26/2025
On the night of September 26, the Ukrainian Defense Forces once again attacked the Afipsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. A fire broke out at the site.
Russian media are reporting on the attack. Local authorities confirmed the refinery was hit, but said it was “debris” and tried to downplay the consequences.
Attack details
Eyewitnesses to the incident were the first to report the arrival of the plane at the Afipsky Refinery and the fire that broke out at the enterprise.
“UAVs attacked the Afipsky refinery in the Krasnodar Territory. Eyewitnesses see a fire,” the Russian Cheka-OGPU Telegram channel wrote early Friday morning.
Contrary to usual practice, the event was confirmed quite quickly by the operational headquarters of this Russian region: they stated that the Afipsky refinery was “attacked and caught fire.”
But the causes of the fire, which were announced by local authorities, turned out to be quite traditional for Russian state propaganda – as well as attempts to minimize the consequences of the attack.
“The debris of the drone fell on one of the installations. There were no injuries. A fire broke out on an area of 30 square meters, which has already been extinguished. Operational and special services are working at the scene,” the report says.
At the same time, photos from the scene cast doubt on the claims about the “fire area of 30 sq m.”
According to the Dnipro Osint Telegram channel , the attack most likely hit a primary oil refining facility (coordinates: 44.8837641043713, 38.817770564969194): it was its burning, according to the channel’s author, that was captured on video.
What is known about the company?
Afipsky Oil Refinery ) is a large oil refinery located near the village of Afipsky in Krasnodar Krai.
The design oil refining capacity is 6.25 million tons per year.
The enterprise produces gas gasoline, diesel fuel, gas condensate distillates, vacuum gas oil, fuel oil, and sulfur.
According to open data, for example, in 2020, 2.02 million tons of diesel fuel, 1.093 million tons of vacuum gas oil, 0.92 million tons of fuel oil, and 0.8 million tons of gas gasoline were produced there.
As OBOZ.UA wrote, this is not the first time that Ukrainian drones have attacked the Afipsky refinery. Reports of strikes on it and the Novokuibyshevsky refinery appeared, in particular, at the end of August. Then, powerful fires broke out at both plants.
Reports of attacks on the Afip refinery have been appearing periodically since 2023.
Excellent! Ukraine is making sure that cockroaches cannot drive their cars anymore. This is becoming a real problem for the crime syndicate’s economy.