Since 30 October, the Defence Forces have struck the Omsk, Kirishi, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl refineries, which are among the five most powerful in the country.
“Smaller facilities were also hit, but ones no less important to the enemy: the Novokuibyshevsk and Saratov plants. The Defence Forces are systematically disabling Russia’s oil refining sector,” – the General Staff said.
They added that the distance from Omsk to the front line is almost 2,500 kilometres. It was in this city that, on 11 November, a fire broke out at Russia’s most powerful oil refinery. Units of Ukraine’s Defence Forces struck the Omsk refinery — a giant of Russia’s oil refining industry. It is capable of processing more than 21 million tonnes of oil per year and has one of the highest oil refining depth indicators in Russia (around 99%).
The results of the strikes on the Kirishi and Saratov refineries have also been confirmed.
On the night of 9 November, KINEF LLC (KirishiNefteOrgSintez) in the Leningrad Region was hit. This plant has an installed capacity of about 20 million tonnes of oil per year and accounts for more than 6% of all oil refining in Russia. It produces a wide range of petroleum products, including fuel for the needs of the aggressor state’s army. As a result of the strike, an atmospheric tubular oil processing unit (AT), a primary oil processing unit (ELOU) and two cooling units were damaged.
Earlier still, on 7 November, Saratov Refinery PJSC was hit. The facility, with a capacity of about 7 million tonnes of oil per year, serves the needs of Russia’s military-industrial complex and armed forces. The plant’s only primary oil processing unit, AVT-6, was damaged, along with two fuel hydrotreating units, pipelines and a 10,000-cubic-metre tank where a fire broke out. The facility’s operations have been halted.
Strikes on primary processing units reduce fuel production for the Russian army and cut the revenues Russia uses to finance the war, the General Staff stressed, adding that the Defence Forces, exercising the right to self-defence guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter, will continue to take systematic measures to compel Russia to end its armed aggression against Ukraine.