More than 45% of Russia’s oil refining capacity is offline. So says Ukraine’s General Staff, which gave the figure as of September 21, after a strike on the Moscow Oil Refinery. It is Kyiv’s own claim, not an independently verified total.
The General Staff pointed to one consequence: a shortage of high-quality fuel in Russia, with a sharp fall in output of gasoline and diesel meeting the Euro-5/K5 standard.
A week of named targets
The statement listed what Ukrainian units hit between September 14 and 20. Four stand out.
On the night of September 15, the Syzran refinery in the Samara region lost its AVT-6 primary refining unit and its tank farm. On the night of September 17, the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl, with an annual capacity of about 15 million tons of oil, was hit at its AVT-3 unit. In Taganrog, in the Rostov region, strikes reached Atlant Aero, which makes Molniya strike and reconnaissance drones and parts for Orion drones. And on September 20 came the Gazprom Neft-Moscow refinery, where the AVT-6 unit, a comprehensive oil processing unit and an isomerization unit were targeted.
Air defences and drone bases
The General Staff said Ukrainian forces also went after Russian air defences and electronic warfare. Targets included a 92N6 radar of an S-400 system in Sochi, two S-400 launchers near Vygonichi in the Bryansk region, a Buk-M3 near Ukrainka in the Zaporizhzhia region, and electronic warfare stations, radars and repeaters in Bryansk.
Sites that support Russia’s strike drones were hit too. Storage, preparation, launch and production sites were struck around Donetsk, Kursk and Severodonetsk. An Orion drone ground control station was hit at Saki airfield. At Rostov-on-Don (Central) airfield, the statement listed two An-26 aircraft, an An-12 and three helicopters. Ammunition, fuel and supply depots were struck through the week.
RBC-Ukraine reported that on the night of September 21 Ukrainian forces also hit the rare Kasta radar station. On September 20, it said, they carried out one of their largest attacks on Russian territory, using more than two thousand strike drones and missiles.
