(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian forces struck Rosneft PJSC\u2019s refinery in Russia\u2019s Saratov overnight as part of a record barrage of drones as it continues to target its foe\u2019s fuel producing industry on a near-daily basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Separately, Moscow claimed a Ukrainian drone struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since 2022, near one of the facility\u2019s power units. Ukraine hasn\u2019t commented.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Saratov attack resulted in a fire at the refinery, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said in a Telegram statement. Ukraine\u2019s forces also struck Engels airfield in the Saratov region, about 730 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow and over 1,000 km east of Kyiv, according to the statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Engels air base is a critical operating hub for Russian warplanes including the Tu-95 long-range strategic bomber, which has been used to launch cruise missile strikes against Ukraine, the General Staff said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regional authorities said there was damage to civilian infrastructure in Saratov and Engels following the attack, which also killed two people. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv\u2019s forces also hit an oil depot in Russia\u2019s Kaluga region and on a drone storage facility in the Bryansk region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Images of the Saratov refinery captured Sunday by NASA\u2019s Fire Information for Resource Management System show fresh heat anomalies that may indicate active fires.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rosneft didn\u2019t immediately respond to a Bloomberg request for a comment sent via WhatsApp outside normal business hours. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Saratov refinery, which has a design capacity of processing about 140,000 barrels of crude a day, was previously hit on July 8 and had restored operations after that attack. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s forces intensified strikes on Russia\u2019s refineries, including facilities far from the nations\u2019 border, in the final days of July after a short lull over the previous couple of weeks. On Friday, Kyiv hit the Volgograd refinery, one of Russia\u2019s largest, while attacks on Saturday targeted Ufa, home to three Bashneft refineries, in Russia\u2019s Bashkortostan republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier on Sunday another drone attack on the republic\u2019s industrial facilities sparked a fire at an industrial area in Ufa, Radiy Khabirov, head of Bashkortostan, said without providing details. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Intensified attacks threaten to disrupt fuel supplies in Russia again, just as many regions across the country were increasing limits for gasoline and diesel sales at filling stations or even lifting them after a period of shortages. Following the attack on the Volgograd refinery, filling stations of Lukoil PJSC and Gazprom PJSC temporarily introduced gasoline rationing in the Volgograd region, according to regional authorities.<\/p>\n
In the past 24 hours, 1,158 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by Russia\u2019s air defense systems, the Defense Ministry said in a statement after midday Moscow time. That was Ukraine\u2019s record for the number of drones launched in a single day, according to estimates from Agentstvo. Novosti, an independent media outlet. The previous record was on June 18, when 992 Ukrainian drones were shot down, it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Ukraine continues so successfully target Russian oil infrastructure, Zelenskyy said certain Russian enterprises not currently subject to Western sanctions are working to step up production of drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe aggressor is investing more and more in its ballistic weapons capability and is trying to ramp up production,\u201d Zelenskyy said on X. \u201cPressure is needed on every segment of Russia\u2019s defense-industrial complex.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alexey Likhachev, chief executive officer of Russia\u2019s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said a Ukrainian drone hit a passageway that connects six power units at the Zaporizhzhia plant overnight, several meters from the reactor compartment of the third unit. There was no explosion, he said, according to Rosatom\u2019s in-house media service\u2019s Telegram.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Likhachev said Rosatom hopes Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will visit the Zaporizhzhia facility in the near future. Grossi has visited the plant several times since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The IAEA hasn\u2019t commented on Likhachev\u2019s claims, which couldn\u2019t be independently verified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog said the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeast Ukraine lost off-site power for the 23rd time since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. During the outage emergency diesel generates provided back-up power for reacting cooling and other safety functions. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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