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(Bloomberg) — Ukraine struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, threatening to disrupt fuel supplies again as strikes on the country’s downstream industry resumed.
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Ukraine’s Security Service said on Telegram that it targeted facilities at Lukoil PJSC’s refinery in the Volgograd region, without indicating the extent of the damage. The attack resulted in a fire at the facility, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a separate message.
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Kyiv has intensified attacks on Russian refineries this year, helping drive the country’s crude processing rates to multiyear lows and contributing to a nationwide fuel shortage this summer. Many Russian regions had to ration gasoline and diesel sales at filling stations, while the government banned most exports of motor-fuel.
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Russia didn’t specifically confirm the attack on the refinery, but Volgograd Governor Andrey Bocharov said earlier Friday that a fire broke out at an industrial facility in the region’s fuel and energy complex following a mass drone attack, without identifying the site.
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Satellite imagery of the Volgograd refinery by NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System shows several freshly hit anomalies at the facility site, which indicate fires.
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The Volgograd refinery is one of Russia’s largest, with a design processing capacity of about 300,000 barrels of crude a day. It has been targeted repeatedly by Ukraine and had only recently restored throughput, nearly recovering its runs to levels seen before earlier strikes.
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Lukoil’s press service didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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A lull in Ukrainian attacks over the past few weeks had given several drone-hit refineries time to complete repairs and resume operations, helping improve fuel supplies to the domestic market before the latest strike.
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(Updates with a statement from Ukraine’s General Staff, data from NASA FIRMS throughout the story.)
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