Ukrainian Drones Hit Yaroslavl Oil Refinery; Power Cuts Imposed in Crimea
Overnight Ukrainian drone strikes damaged one of Russia's largest oil refineries in Yaroslavl, while attacks on Crimea's power grid caused emergency outages. Russia continued to strike Ukrainian energy facilities.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Yaroslavl overnight into Tuesday, 3 November, regional authorities said. The attack is part of an ongoing exchange of strikes on energy infrastructure between Russia and Ukraine during Russia's invasion.
Yaroslavl region Governor Mikhail Yevrayev confirmed the refinery was hit in a "large-scale" attack and said two workers at the site were injured. He gave no details on the extent of the damage.
The refinery and the scale of the attack
The Slavneft-Yanos refinery is jointly owned by Rosneft and Gazprom. Its crude processing capacity is 300,000 barrels per day, or 15 million metric tons per year. Ukraine claims it supplies fuel and lubricants to the Russian military.
Russia's Defense Ministry said it intercepted 856 Ukrainian drones over Russia and annexed Crimea between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Officials said more than half were aimed at Moscow and surrounding regions.
Crimea and Ukraine's energy system
In annexed Crimea, Kremlin-installed authorities said Ukrainian attacks on the regional power grid forced at least five cities on the peninsula to introduce emergency power cuts.
Russia also kept up its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Ukraine's Energy Ministry reported damage at facilities in 10 regions, and emergency outages were recorded in Kyiv and six surrounding regions. The Russian military confirmed it targeted four power plants overnight, along with two substations and port infrastructure on the Danube River. DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, said three of its thermal power plants had to shut down after the Russian strikes.
