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Jun 25, 2024 · The obvious target for retaliatory strikes on refineries would be the Ukrainian refining sector, but it was already weak before the beginning of the war, and the only refinery that was running when the war started—Kremenchug—was attacked soon after the war began and then again in February 2024, shortly after the first drone attacks on Russian refining.
Feb 18, 2024 · 0:13. An oil storage depot in Russia's Kursk region was set ablaze after a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the local governor. Hostile drones have been winding their way across the Russian ...
Mar 22, 2024 · There have been at least 12 attacks on major Russian refineries since 2022, and at least nine this year, along with several terminals, depots and storage facilities, according to a military ...
Mar 13, 2024 · Ukraine launched overnight drone attacks on three Russian oil refineries, a Ukrainian defense source told CNN on Wednesday, as Kyiv intensifies its cross-border strikes days before Vladimir Putin ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Vakulenko suggests that Russia attacked Ukraine’s “single operational [oil] refinery” only in 2024, “soon after Ukraine’s first attacks on Russian refineries,” and then “turned to Ukraine’s electric infrastructure.” In fact, Russia began targeting Ukrainian oil refineries within weeks of its February 2022 invasion.
- Sergey Vakulenko
May 12, 2024 · In one of the latest attacks, Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Kaluga region, setting it on fire, the RIA state news agency reported on Friday, per Reuters.
May 8, 2024 · On January 19, a Ukrainian drone struck an oil depot in the town of Klintsy, in Russia’s western Bryansk region, setting four gasoline tanks on fire and igniting some 1.6 million gallons of oil. Later that week, another strike lit a fire at Rosneft’s oil refinery in Tuapse, a Russian city some 600 miles from Ukrainian-held territory.
