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Ukraine Strikes on Russian Oil and Gas Sites Intensify, Affecting Putin's War Chest
Ukraine increases drone strikes on Russian oil and gas facilities, impacting production and revenue. Attacks target major refineries across Russia, disrupting 10% of processing capacity, including Rosnev's plant at Ryazan and Novoshak Tink's refinery in southern Rostov. Implications for Putin's finances and the ongoing conflict.
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It began an earnest in January.
Ukraine launching drone strikes against Russia's vital oil and gas facilities.
In recent weeks, Kiev's campaign has stepped up, targeting refineries further and further
inside Russia itself, and forcing some of them to halt production.
Ukraine and one-way drones have attacked 12 separate oil refineries scattered across
Russia from St. Petersburg and the North, right down to Krasnodar in the South.
Together, they account for 10% of Russia's entire processing capacity.
The largest attack was against Rosnev's plant at Ryazan.
It refines nearly 13 million tons of crude a year, nearly 6% of the country's total.
It had to shut down two refining units after a drone strike set them on fire.
Novoshak Tink's refinery in Russia's southern-rost off region is a favourite target.
It's been hit four times since the war began.
The latest attack earlier this month.
It produces fuels for Russia's export market, but had to suspend production after several
downed drones fell on the plant.
One of the most successful Ukrainian strikes happened near the city of Nizhinovgorod, around
270 miles east of Moscow.
The Norsi plant was Russia's fourth largest, producing 10% of its gasoline, about 5 million
tons, along with diesel and aviation fuel.
But a Ukrainian drone strike damaged its crude distillation unit, meaning the refineries
production was cut in half.
Then there was the attack on a huge refinery at Kharishi up towards the Gulf of Finland,
one of the top two refineries in Russia.
Ukrainian drones have repeatedly targeted this plant, but so far the Russians have managed
to defend it.
Another plant hit was the Sizran Oil refinery, one of three in the Somar region that Ukraine's
SBU Intelligence Agency said it attacked.
The refinery which was set on fire is southeast of Moscow and 500 miles from Ukrainian territory.
Their more recently keyf turns its attention to the Slavianc refinery in Krasnodar, sending
in a swarm of attack drones at 3am, the sixth attack that Ukraine launched in a week.
Finally Ukraine's GUR spy agency said it was behind an attack that damaged a petrochemical
plant at Caluga 85 miles from Moscow.
The refinery which makes solvents and fuel oil was targeted by four drones at 4am.
The UAVs were shot down, but one fell on the plant causing a fire.
These continuing attacks are designed to cut Russia's oil exports, a prime source of
war funding for the Kremlin.
They also impact the supply of fuel and lubricants to the military.
But they've also caused a rise in prices at the pump.
In parts of Western Russia, the price of gasoline has risen to a sixth month high.
President Zelensky's chief of staff, Andrew Yermak, said Ukraine was fighting everything
that finances Russia's army and the war.
But these attacks also have a global impact.
Oil prices worldwide jumped by 2%.
The US is known to be wary of imposing sanctions on Russia that could cause spikes in world
fuel prices.
The question then is how far will Ukraine go in its energy war?
And what balance will it have to strike between its military aims and relations with its
allies?
Simon Newton, forces news.
