Moscow Oil Refinery Halts Operations After Largest-Ever Drone Attack on Russian Capital, General Staff Says
The refinery suspended oil refining indefinitely after Ukrainian drones struck tanks and processing units, with Russian officials reporting at least five fires.
- On June 18, Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Moscow Oil Refinery, forcing the facility to suspend oil processing operations for "an indefinite period."
- Supplying about 40% of the Moscow fuel market and aviation fuel to all four of Moscow's major airports, the refinery is central to Ukraine's sequential campaign against Russian oil infrastructure.
- The strike damaged a combined oil processing unit, three RVS-10000 tanks, and one RVS-30000 tank; video footage captured numerous misses by Russian interceptor missiles defending the plant.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a "just response" to Russia's ongoing strikes, while the military confirmed strikes on drone command posts and railway bridges in Crimea.
- Russia lacks integrated air defense systems capable of countering mass drone attacks, relying instead on point defense of individual facilities that remain vulnerable to overwhelming strikes.
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Ukrainian drones reached various points from Moscow on Thursday in the biggest air attack from Kiev to the Russian capital since the beginning of the war between the two countries. The bombing had as main target the oil refinery Gazprom Neft, located in the Russian capital. Damage to the site, which ended on fire, can be seen in satellite images released this Saturday.
Russia appears to have blown up its own oil tank in connection with Thursday's drone attack in Ukraine.
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The Russian president did not speak, but the explosion at the Moscow oil refinery, the thick smoke and the black raindrops could not be silenced despite the controlled publicity. This was further proof that the Russian-Ukrainian war is not only not going according to the Kremlin's plans on the Ukrainian front, but that Ukrainian drones are also causing increasing problems in the hinterland.
Moscow Oil Refinery halts operations after largest-ever drone attack on Russian capital, General Staff says
The strike damaged a combined oil processing unit, three RVS-10000 oil storage tanks, and one RVS-30000 tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery. The facility has suspended oil processing for an indefinite period.
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