Over the past week, Ukraine’s Defence Forces struck three major Russian oil facilities at distances of between 480 and 1,000km from the front line.
This was reported by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.
Key targets included the Volgograd oil refinery. It is one of the largest fuel-sector enterprises in Russia, with a processing capacity of around 15 million tonnes of oil per year. Among the products supplied to the Russian army are motor petrol, diesel fuel, aviation fuel and oil components.
A petrochemical facility in the Samara region was also hit — a large-scale enterprise in gas processing and petrochemicals. It produces raw materials for explosives, including benzene, phenol, acetone and synthetic ethyl alcohol.
Another target for the Defence Forces was the “Samara” station — Europe’s largest tank farm and a key production hub in Russia’s main oil pipeline transport system. The tank farm’s total capacity is 1.6 million cubic metres.
The Ministry of Defence noted that the Defence Forces’ priorities also include striking sites used to store, prepare and launch Russian UAVs, destroying ammunition depots, UAV control points, fuel and lubricants depots, and other facilities.
Destroying such facilities undermines Russia’s ability to continue the war.
- On 2 October and on the night of 3 October 2026, units of Ukraine’s Defence Forces struck a number of important military facilities belonging to the Russian occupiers.