MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil refinery within the metropolis of Ryazan in a single day, inflicting a hearth and damaging gear at one in every of Russia’s largest refineries, 4 business sources instructed Reuters on Friday.
The sources stated oil storage on the refinery had been set ablaze. Amongst broken gear had been a railway loading rack and a hydrotreater unit used to take away impurities from refined merchandise. Reuters was not instantly capable of attain Rosneft, Russia’s giant state oil firm, which owns the refinery.
Russia’s Defence Ministry stated its air defences had repelled a large Ukrainian drone assault in a single day, intercepting and destroying 121 drones focusing on 13 areas, together with Moscow. It made no point out of casualties or injury.
It stated 20 had focused the Ryazan area, which is southeast of Moscow.
Ukraine additionally stated it had hit the Ryazan refinery. Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s centre for countering disinformation, described the refinery as one goal, together with the Kremniy plant in Bryansk, which Kyiv says produces microelectronics for Russian weapons methods.
Channels on the Telegram messaging app posted unverified movies of what bloggers described as giant blazes in Ryazan. They stated an oil storage depot and an influence station had been hit.
The business sources stated that the railway loading rack caught fireplace after the assault.
“A 20,000-tons reservoir is on fireplace. Adjoining reservoirs had been additionally broken, the loadings have been suspended,” a supply stated.
Ryazan oil refinery processed 13.1 million metric tons (262,000 barrels per day), or nearly 5% of Russia’s whole refining throughput in 2024.
It produced 2.2 million tons of gasoline, 3.4 million tons of diesel, 4.3 million tons of gasoline oil and 1 million of jet gasoline, in keeping with a source-based knowledge.
