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Ukrainian forces struck the Omsk Oil Refinery, Russia’s largest refinery by processing capacity, in a long-range drone attack covering approximately 3,000 kilometers. The strike was reported by Ukrainian open-source intelligence community Exilenova+ on November 11. The facility, located in the Russian city of Omsk, is part of Gazprom Neft and has a designed processing capacity exceeding 21 million metric tons of crude oil annually, accounting for approximately 10% of Russia’s total oil refining output, according to Exilenova+. The refinery produces several types of automotive gasoline, including AI-92, AI-95, and G-Drive 100, alongside Euro-5 diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, lubricants, and a...

Omsk oil refinery is responsible for 10% of Russia's gasoline output. And it just exploded, along with many other refineries' troubles. Putting two and two together - gasoline shortages are expected.

In Omsk on campus appeared wild installation: someone made a winter monument from a dead cat. The Agency Superomsk reports that standing on hind legs blue cat symbolizes the deadly cold — so say the students. FlashSiberia claims that the University management is looking for authors.

OMSK, October 29 (Itar-Tass) - A quarantine was imposed in the village of Rozovka in the Omsk Region on Saturday in connection with the bird flu. The Novosibirsk inter-regional veterinary laboratory confirmed the diagnosis, a source at the regional veterinary and farm produce control department told Itar-Tass. More than 100 poultry birds died in Rozovka located not far from the Russian-Kazakh border. Deaths of wild and domestic birds from infection were reported in six districts of the Omsk Region last August and September. The tough preventive measures taken by local authorities at that time stopped the bird flu from...