RFP strike: The capacity of one of the factories decreased by more than half (photo, video)
According to the agency with reference to anonymous sources, the main unit of distillation of crude oil (AVT-6) was damaged due to a large-scale attack, which means that at least 53% of the production of the refinery was stopped. The Lukoil, where the agency addressed, refused comments. This plant of Lukoil processes about 15. 8 million tons of Russian crude oil per year, ie almost 5. 8% of the total volume of refined oil. According to sectoral sources, the plant also produces about 4.
9 million tons of gasoline per year, which is 11% of the total volume in Russia, 6. 4% of diesel fuel, 5. 6% of fuel fuel and 7. 4% of the country's aircraft fuel. In fact, Russia, as Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States, has huge energy stocks, but since in the 1960s oil was discovered in the depths of Western Siber Currently, it turned out to be doubtful due to sanctions. However, the attacks of drones in oil refineries significantly reduced the energy capacity of the Russian Federation.
Thus, in the afternoon on February 19, residents of Nizhny Novgorod heard an explosion from the KSTOV district, where the large oil refinery is located Lukoil-Nizhzhegorodnefteorgsynthesis LLC. In early February this year, a fire at the Volgograd oil refinery of Lukoil, which is the largest producer of petroleum products in the Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation, arose as a result of the Drone attack.
The Kremlin stressed, reports Reuters that the Russian military is doing everything they need and what they call their in Ukraine will continue. "Russia states that since the beginning of the war it has destroyed more than 15,000 Ukrainian drones," the agency said. At the same time, since March 1, Russia has introduced a six -month ban on gasoline export. Strokes on Russian oil facilities are a significant problem for President Vladimir Putin, Reuters analysts say.
Earlier, the focus told about the number of objects of the oil refining complex of the Russian Federation, which erupted explosions from August 2023 to January 2024. One of the latest large-scale incidents occurred near St. Petersburg: burning at the terminal, where Russian oil was loaded for sale. At the same time, a number of Ukrainian media, citing their own sources, reported that the SBU drones attacked two oil refineries in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation - Ilsky and Popipe.
According to the source, a large -scale fire occurred at the Ilsky Refinery, the installation of a primary processing with a capacity of 3. 6 million tons per year was affected. By the way, this is not the first fire of the Il oil refining plant in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation, in particular in May 2023, the factory took place for two days in a row.
We will remind, in the morning on March 12 in the Ministry of Defense of Russia stated that Ukraine allegedly attacked the territory of Russia with the use of 25 drones. The Russian department argued that the forces of Russian air defense allegedly intercepted and destroyed drones over Moscow, Leningrad, Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Tula and Olovsk regions of the Russian Federation.
Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin reported that as a result of the UAV attack there was a "fire on one of the plants for oil processing" at the facility of the fuel and energy complex in the Kstvsky industrial zone. At the same time, the Governor of the Orel region Andriy Klitschkov reported "falling UAV", specifying that the attack was "the object of the fuel and energy complex", a fire broke out.