02/13/2025
Russian oil refineries (refineries) have lost 10% of their capacity due to a series of strikes by Ukrainian drones, which in January became the highest since the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As a result, oil companies are forced to reduce production.
This was reported by Reuters, citing sources in the oil refining industry. Since the beginning of 2025, drones have attacked at least seven Russian refineries, including:
- January 11 – Taneco in Tatarstan and Rosneft’s Saratov Refinery;
- January 24 and 26 – Ryazan Oil Refinery;
- January 29 – Sibur-Kstovo plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region;
- January 31 and February 3 – Volgograd Oil Refinery;
- In addition, on February 3, drones attacked Gazprom’s Astrakhan refinery, which produced fuel for the southern regions.
Refineries in Ryazan (which supplied the Moscow region, among others), Volgograd (the largest supplier to the Southern Federal District), and Astrakhan have stopped producing fuel, and their repairs will take weeks, if not months. Thus, the Ukrainian strikes are exacerbating the problems of oil companies due to the tightening of US sanctions: oil exports are declining, and the possibilities for its processing in Russia are shrinking. This creates a surplus of barrels and forces oil companies to reduce production.
Last year, drone strikes and maintenance problems saw Russia’s oil refining output fall to a 12-year low of 267 million tonnes, while exports of petroleum products fell 9% to 113.7 million tonnes. In response, the Russian government classified statistics and stopped providing Rosstat with real-time data on gasoline and diesel production.
Earlier, OBOZ.UA reported that in 2024, Ukrainian drones attacked refineries and fuel bases located in Russia more than 80 times. Such attacks are painfully felt by the aggressor country, but they do not create significant consequences for the Russian army , believes the director of the Energy Research Center, Oleksandr Kharchenko.
“Russian oil refineries (refineries) have lost 10% of their capacity due to a series of strikes by Ukrainian drones…”
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