Ukrainska Pravda reported on 12 November that Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces had struck the Omsk, Kirishi, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl refineries since 30 October. The General Staff described them as five of Russia’s largest refineries, grouping separate reported strikes in one list of targets.
Its most detailed account concerned two plants. The General Staff said a strike on the Kirishi refinery in Leningrad region on the night of 9 November damaged an atmospheric tubular processing unit, an ELOU primary-processing unit and two cooling units.
For the Saratov refinery, the General Staff said its only AVT-6 primary-processing unit, two fuel hydrotreating units, pipelines and a storage tank were damaged. It also said the plant had stopped operating.
The General Staff said the strikes would reduce fuel production for the Russian military and revenue used to finance the war. Its account, however, provides facility-level claims for only two of the five refineries.
The supplied report gives no production figures before or after the strikes, repair schedules or current operating status for each plant. It includes no response from Russian authorities or the companies involved. The General Staff’s list identifies a reported chain of targets, but it does not provide a measure of Russia-wide refining losses.
Source: Ukraine’s General Staff statement, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.
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- Українська правда · Source date: 2026-11-12
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