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Russia's Syzran Oil Refinery Halts Operations After Ukrainian Drone Strike: Reuters
The strike hit the refinery's core distillation unit, with repairs possibly taking a month and risking fuel supply disruptions across multiple Russian regions, Reuters and industry sources said.
- On December 9, Reuters reported that the Rosneft-owned Syzran oil refinery in Samara region halted crude processing after a December 5 drone strike hit the AVT-6 primary crude distillation unit.
- Repeated strikes, including in August, show the plant, owned by Rosneft, has been targeted at least 7 times in 2025, with damage to the same unit.
- The plant supplies fuel to the Samara, Saratov and Penza regions as well as parts of central Russia, with annual outputs of 8,900,000 tons gasoline, 1.5 million tons diesel and 700,000 tons fuel oil.
- One industry source cautioned that repair work could take up to a month, potentially disrupting fuel supply chains across several Russian regions and rippling through logistics in western Russia.
- Separately, reports show a December 5 strike destroyed 20 tanks at Temryuk seaport, Krasnodar region, while a fire burns at a liquefied gas loading dock with nearly two dozen rail tankers as Kyiv calls these homegrown long-range drone strikes 'long-range sanctions.
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The repairs could last about a month.
Syzran oil refinery Rosneft on the Volga River stopped processing oil on December 5 due to damage caused by an attack by Ukrainian drones.
Syzran refinery in Russia stopped after Ukrainian drone attack — key element of technological process damaged tsn.ua (news 1+1).
The Syzran Oil Refinery in the Samara Region has stopped processing oil after damage caused by Ukrainian defense forces on December 5.
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