Ukraine says its drones hit major Russian refinery amid deepening fuel shortages
Militarnyi describes the target as one of Russia’s 10 largest refineries. Damage or interruption to production remains unconfirmed.
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Crude goes south, gasoline north—Ukraine’s strikes split Russia’s oil trade
Ukraine’s refinery campaign has turned one of the world’s largest fuel exporters into an importer—and pushed its crude onto an Arctic shortcut it barely used a year ago.
Russia is squeezing independent gas stations out of its fuel market
Russia cannot make more fuel. So it’s handing the market to the state-linked majors, and the independent ones are being cut out.
Occupied Sevastopol puts fuel back on open sale—then caps every car at 20 liters
The occupation calls it stabilization. The 20-liter cap and the price limits say the shortage hasn’t moved.
Ukraine’s drones force oil-giant Russia to import gasoline—now from Morocco
Ukrainian strikes have cut Russian refining to a two-decade low, forcing one of the worldvs largest oil producers to buy finished fuel abroad—first from India, now from Morocco, shipped to the Arctic.
Seventh time this year: Ukrainian drones torch a top-five Russian refinery in Yaroslavl
The pre-dawn raid sent several columns of black smoke over the Slavneft-YANOS plant, which turns crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel for central Russia.
How tight is Russia’s fuel crisis? Altai now caps each car at one fill a day
Drivers had gamed the midnight reset to take two rations. This week, the Siberian republic shut the window.
A Siberian fuel plant 2,000 km from the war zone goes offline—drones struck it days ago
The refinery near Tyumen normally turns out roughly half a million tons of gasoline and millions of tons of diesel a year — for now it makes neither, per Reuters sources.
Ukraine’s strikes left Crimea’s prepaid fuel coupons worthless—and the biggest chain won’t refund them
It is invoking a 14-day return law a Russian lawyer says doesn’t apply—he calls it unjust enrichment.
First the pumps, then the harvest, now the commute—Russia’s fuel shortage keeps finding new victims
Public transport fares climb in 25 Russian regions. Fuel-sale restrictions officially cover more than 40 regions out of 83.
Russia’s fuel crisis has moved from the pump to the harvest
As the fuel crisis deepens, Russia’s regional governors are improvising. Ukrainian drones have driven the country’s oil refining…
Russia has the oil. It no longer has the gasoline—so Russians are learning to make their own
Ukraine’s drone campaign has cut Russian refining to its lowest level since March 2005—and the diesel Russia can no longer sell is driving world fuel prices to multiyear highs.
A plant making 150 products from gasoline to polyethylene caught fire 1,300 km from the war zone—Ukraine hits two refineries overnight
Fires broke out at the Afipsky refinery's tank farm area, the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat complex, and, likely, the Rosneft-Opt depot next door, monitoring channels and Astra report.
Fires at both ends of Russia’s fuel chain: a Lukoil depot in Stavropol Krai and a ferry port facing Kerch
The governor confirmed the blaze in the industrial zone and evacuated a street; satellite data showed the oil transshipment complex at Port Kavkaz alight.
Ukrainian strikes emptied Russia’s refineries. Now Russia is smuggling fuel to front under tarpaulins and grain
Russian military forces are hiding fuel in plastic tanks placed inside grain trucks on occupied Ukrainian territories.
Drones set Russia’s Syzran refinery ablaze 800 km from the war zone — analysts count every primary unit hit
Both crude distillation installations and a gasoline reformer burned at the plant that refines up to 8.9 million tons of oil a year.
Russia risks losing part of its grain harvest as Ukraine’s refinery strikes dry up diesel
Farmers in the country's southern breadbasket face fuel limits, empty pumps, and price spikes at the exact moment combines need to roll, as Moscow continues its costly war against Ukraine.
Anti-drone nets keep failing: Russia’s fuel tanks burn from Azov to Moscow
Fuel facilities burned from Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast to Moscow and Tatarstan as Russia claimed hundreds of drones downed.
Russia wrapped its fuel tanks in protective nets—Ukraine’s drones burned them regardless: two oil depots burned last night
The Tver depot's defenses, visible on satellite imagery, did not survive their first real test. SBU confirmed the strikes.
Russia tried to secure Japanese jet fuel amid shortages. Tokyo closed the loophole
Japan said its ban on jet fuel exports to Russia covers shipments through third countries and ship-to-ship transfers after Reuters reported Moscow was seeking a cargo via traders.