Moscow oil refinery hit by drone attacks is unlikely to resume production this year, sources say

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Source: Reuters

June 24, 2026 6:01 AM EDT Updated 10 hours ago


June 24 (Reuters) - Moscow's oil refinery will be offline for at least six months after suffering extensive damage in Ukrainian drone attacks, two industry sources said on Wednesday, ​complicating Russian efforts to tackle fuel shortages across the world's ​largest country.

The refinery, located on the southern outskirts of the ⁠Russian capital, is the largest fuel supplier to the Moscow region. ​It was hit twice this month by Ukrainian drones, forcing it to halt ​operations.

"It will take at least half a year to repair," one of the sources said of the damage to the Moscow refinery. Gazprom Neft (SIBN.MM), which operates the plant, ​did not reply to a request for comment.

Ukraine has stepped up ​attacks on Russian energy infrastructure with long-range drone strikes. Russia, meanwhile, has continued firing ‌missiles ⁠at energy and defence-related targets in and around Ukrainian cities.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/moscow-oil-refinery-hit-by-drone-attacks-is-unlikely-resume-production-this-year-2026-06-24/

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[dave99]

1. YEAH !!!!

[Bengus81]

2. Never thought that day would happen eh Putin? Did you call Trump and scream at him?

LOL....love it!!

[pecosbob]

3. Own goal pretty well describes this clip...

Seems that the storage tank in this clip was likely hit by a heat-seeking manpad fired by defense forces. Multiple missiles seem to have homed in on the heat of the fires at the refinery instead of their intended targets...

[Strelnikov_]

4. That's the problem with petroleum infrastructure.

It blows up good, real good.

It’s not the dispersed facilities of Ploesti in WW2.

Combine the concentrated infrastructure of today with drone warfare, a major weak link.

A concerted drone attack on infrastructure around Houston would bring this country to its knees.

[3Hotdogs]

5. I wonder if nothin' will happen to it when the repair is 2/3rds finished.

Nice refinery ya got there, Vladdie. I'd hate to see anything happen to it

[niyad]

7. Ukraine has demonstrated that it likes to revisit certain sites when

the repairs are nearly finished. Roubles to rubble.

[Justice matters.]

8. Yep. How bout hit it again once it's half rebuilt hahaha

Boom.

So dicktatorial Russia is going bankrupt, just like dicktatorial America...

Geeebusss.

[VMA131Marine]

6. Ukraine has enough long range drones

to keep the Moscow refinery, and others, offline for much longer than 6 months.

[SergeStorms]

10. And Iran.....

which was producing drones for Russia, is now stockpiling them for themselves.

Pootie is really starting to feel the pain of his war. Good.

[SergeStorms]

9. What a shame.

I'm all broken up about that.

[electric_blue68]

11. Oh. gee..

Tsk, tsk....