Russian oil refinery partially suspends operations after drone attack, as thermal energy plants are damaged in Ukraine

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A Russian oil refinery in the Krasnodar region was impacted by a suspected Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday, according to local officials.

A Russian oil refinery in the southern Krasnodar region was impacted by a suspected Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday, according to local officials. Regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said Kyiv had launched the drones in the early hours of Saturday morning. Russian state media outlet TASS reported that the oil refinery, in Slavyansk-on-Kuban in Krasnodar Krai, had partially suspended operations, citing Eduard Trudnev, security director for the Slavyansk ECO Group, which runs the facility.

, Ukraine’s largest private energy company. The statement added that “at this moment, power engineers are trying to eliminate the consequences of the attack.” Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko posted on Facebook that “facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions were attacked.” A power engineer at one of the facilities suffered a concussion, Halushchenko said.

said that its thermal power plants have been attacked more than 170 times since the beginning of the war. Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, said on Saturday that Russia had attacked Ukraine overnight with “34 air-, land-, and sea-launched missiles,” with 21 of those missiles intercepted.

 

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