Posted on 08/24/2025 6:55:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A fire at Russia's Novoshakhtinsk refinery was burning for the fourth day on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone strike, the acting governor of the region said.
A fire was reported at in Novoshakhtinsk on Thursday. The refinery there sells fuel mainly for export, and has annual capacity of 5 million metric tons of oil, or around 100,000 barrels per day.
Yury Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov region, said he had a meeting in Novoshakhtinsk.
"The fire area at the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant has now been reduced," he said on Telegram. "Since August 21, firefighters have been fighting a fire at the oil products plant... that was damaged as a result of an enemy attack."
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The calculation is correct. 5 million tons per year is 100,000 barrels per day.
That is not what is burning. That is the amount offline until the burning stops which apparently takes a few days.
Curious if Ukraine is getting better at hitting critical areas of refineries such as cracking towers. Replacing lost oil and oil tanks would be costly, but if critical refining infrastructure is hit, that, I imagine, would be far more expensive and difficult to repair or replace especially if much of it is western equipment and technology
Putin has also moved critical air defenses from the refineries to try to defend his palaces in Valdai, Sochi and Moscow.
Good point. Oil can be replaced in hours. Major process equipment can take months to rebuild.
This plant is about 175 miles from a safe place to fire rockets and drones at it. It is actually about 10 miles form the legal Ukrainine border.
Easy pickins. It has been hit several times before and will be hit again. I would hit again right now while they are fighting the fire.
Ukraine’s losses on the battlefield are approaching 1.8 million, 5 million fled to Russia, 8 million fled to the EU. . .. Ukraine’s “ credit “ rating has been reduced to “ D -“ months ago, etc,….Ukraine is about ready to fall apart. Zelensky was caught sending $50 million per month to UAE….
I don’t think the Ukie war cheerleaders are getting the facts (message), the Democrats Russian Derangement Syndrome has much to do with that. Your Ukraine war is dead, bury it, it’s starting to stink.
Post war analysis will be stunning!
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