Ukrainian Attack Damages Processing Units at Moscow Oil Refinery
For the second time in a week, Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow oil refinery, damaging processing units and causing multiple fires, Reuters reports.
A Ukrainian attack on the Moscow oil refinery owned by Gazprom Neft on the night of June 18 damaged processing units and sparked multiple fires, according to sources cited by Reuters. The attack hit the combined oil processing unit "Euro+", which was commissioned in 2020 as part of the plant's modernization and accounts for 47% of its capacity, or 140,000 barrels per day.
Auxiliary equipment, oil product tanks, pipelines, and secondary units were also damaged. In a previous attack on June 16, the primary processing unit AVT-6 was damaged and caught fire. That unit has a nominal capacity of about 160,000 barrels per day, representing 53% of the plant's capacity.
Sources said the plant planned to restart the Euro+ unit in mid-week and process oil at roughly half capacity while repairing the AVT-6 unit. Ukrainian drones penetrated Moscow's layered air defense and struck the plant, triggering a massive fire. Russian media described the attack as the largest in two years.
