A fire caused by a drone strike has shut down the largest primary oil refining unit at Lukoil's refinery in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Region, DW reports.
At the same time, according to Reuters, the AVT-6 unit which was shut down accounted for about 53 per cent of the refinery's output. Lukoil representatives declined comment.
The explosions in Russia on 12 March affected at least nine regions: Moscow, Leningrad, Tula, Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Orel and Nizhny Novgorod.
Nizhny Novgorod Region governor Gleb Nikitin confirmed the fire at the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery on 12 March.