All these incidents share common features:
🔹 The farther from the Ukrainian border, the stronger the denials by authorities about drone strikes.
🔹 Comments from enterprise press services are very concise. This is understandable, as all major oil refineries are connected to Putin's inner circle. Therefore, talking about damage is akin to admitting that so-called "SMO" is not going according to plan and the airspace is unsafe.
The problems at the Russian refineries have become systemic. Due to drone strikes and process failures, fuel production is being reduced, causing prices to rise in Russia. The Ministry of Energy had to admit that the strikes caused gasoline and diesel exports to drop by 37% and 23%, respectively. As OSINT researcher Stanimir Dobrev noted, after the UAV attack on the Nizhny Novgorod refinery, gasoline production in Russia fell by 2%.
There are 32 large refineries in Russia. Of these, about ten have production volumes of more than 10 million tonnes per year.
🔹 Gazpromneft-Omsk Refinery, 20.89 mln. tonnes
🔹 Kirishinefteorgsintez LLC, 20.1 mln tonnes
🔹 Ryazan Oil Refining Company, 18.8 mln tonnes
🔹 Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, 17 mln tonnes
🔹 Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka, 15.7 mln tonnes
🔹 Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez, 15 mln tonnes
🔹 Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez, 13.1 mln tonnes
🔹 Gazprom Neft Moscow Oil Refinery, 12.15 mln tonnes
🔹 RN-Tuapse Oil Refinery, 12 mln tonnes
🔹 Angarsk Petrochemical Company, 10.2 mln tonnes
Half of the major refineries have seen drone strikes, fires or breakdowns in the last month.
Technological re-equipment or repairs are complicated due to sanctions, and as the situation has shown, it is impossible to ensure the safety of refineries.
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