Recently, Ukrainian UAVs have attacked more than 10 Russian oil refineries.

Due to the Ukrainian attack, the Kuibyshev Refinery shut down the CDU-5 primary processing unit, resulting in the loss of half of its capacity. Reuters reports this with reference to its own sources.

CDU-5 is one of two primary processing units at the Kuibyshev Refinery. Its production capacity is 9.5 thousand tons per day (70 thousand barrels per day).

Another primary oil refining unit – CDU-4 – has a production capacity of 10.5 thousand tons per day. Whether the device works normally is not reported.

Kuibyshev Oil Refinery – information

The Kuibyshev oil refinery belongs to Rosneft. In 2023, the refinery was Russia’s 29th largest oil refinery by production volume. At the end of the year, it accounted for 1.34% of the total oil refining volume, or 3.687 million tons of crude oil.

The enterprise produced 624 thousand tons of gasoline, 1.187 million tons of diesel fuel and 1.040 million tons of fuel oil. This amounted to 1.42%, 1.35% and 2.56% of the total Russian volume, respectively.

Attacks on Russian refineries – latest news

According to Ukrainian intelligence services, Ukraine has recently attacked more than 10 Russian oil refineries using drones.

Let us remind you that the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery came under attack on Saturday, March 23. This is not the first blow to the enterprise: on March 16, Ukraine attacked three oil refineries in the Samara region – Kuibyshevsky, Novokuibyshevsky and Syzransky.

Earlier it was reported that the United States called on Ukraine to stop attacks on Russian refineries due to concerns about rising oil prices. They were partially justified: at the beginning of the week it became known that oil prices had gone up. In particular, due to attacks on oil refineries.