(Reuters) – Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of trying to sabotage a 30-day moratorium on striking each other’s energy infrastructure, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to such a temporary halt.
Ukraine has also accepted the moratorium proposal but said Russia had knocked out power to some of its railways on Wednesday as well as striking hospitals and homes. Moscow said a Ukrainian drone had hit an oil depot in southern Russia.
Russia has pounded Ukraine’s energy grid throughout the three-year war, causing frequent power cuts. Ukraine has retaliated with drone attacks on Russian crude refineries, pumping stations and ports used for oil and gas exports.
Following is a list of some key Russian energy sites hit by Ukraine this year and the consequences of the strikes.
IMPACT
In the first three months of the year, according to Reuters estimates, Ukrainian attacks knocked out 3.3 million metric tons – or 4% – of Russia’s total oil refining capacity.
Russia’s offline primary oil refining capacity in March was revised up 49.7% from the initial plan for this month to 2.96 million tons, according to Reuters calculations based on data from industry sources.
KRASNODAR
A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot located near the village of Kavkazskaya in the Krasnodar region, Russia regional authorities said on March 19. The facility ensures a link for Russian crude to enter the Caspian pipeline consortium (CPC) pipeline.
TUAPSE
A Ukrainian drone attack on March 14 at the Tuapse Rosneft oil refinery in Krasnodar sparked a fire which was extinguished on March 17.
The export-oriented Tuapse plant has processing capacity of 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil and supplies naphtha, fuel oil, vacuum gasoil and high-sulphur diesel mainly to China, Malaysia, Singapore and Turkey.
KIRISHI
A tank at Russia’s Kirishi oil refinery, one of the country’s largest, was damaged by falling debris during a major Ukrainian drone attack on March 8. Several told Reuters the refinery did not suspend its operations after the incident.
The Kirishi refinery produces about 2.3 million tons of gasoline, or 5.3% of Russia’s total. It also produces 7.6% of the country’s diesel fuel, 16.3% of its fuel oil and 3.4% of its aviation fuel, according to industry sources.
RYAZAN
Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery, owned and run by Rosneft, suspended operations after an attack by Ukrainian drones on January 24. The refinery partially resumed oil processing and loading of motor fuels to railway tanks on February 11 and suspended the operations again after another attack on February 24.
Storage tanks at the refinery had been set ablaze and damaged equipment.
The plant, with installed capacity of around 350,000 bpd, refines about 12.7 million tons of Russian crude a year (around 317,000 bpd), or 5.8% of Russia’s total refined crude, according to industry sources.
In 2024, it produced 2.2 million tons of gasoline, 3.4 million tons of diesel, 4.3 million tons of fuel oil and 1 million tons of jet fuel, according to source-based data.
SARATOV
A Rosneft-owned oil refinery in the southern Russian city of Saratov suspended fuel production after Ukrainian drone attacks on February 11.
Saratov refinery processed 5.8 million tons of oil (116,160 barrels per day) in 2024, equating to 2.2% of Russia’s total refining throughput.
SYZRAN
Rosneft-owned Syzran oil refinery was targeted in an attack on March 4.
Syzran refinery processed 4.3 million metric tons of oil (86.000 barrels per day) in 2024.
ASTRAKHAN GAS PROCESSING PLANT
Gazprom’s gas processing plant near Astrakhan suspended fuel production after being attacked on February 3 and was targeted again on March 17.
The plant is capable of processing around 8,340 metric tons of gas condensate per day. The plant produced 703,000 tons of gasoline, or 1.6% of Russia’s total, as well as 492,000 tons of diesel (0.6%) and 299,000 tons of fuel oil (0.7%) in 2023.
VOLGOGRAD
Volgograd refinery, owned by Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, was targeted by Ukrainian drones several times in January and again on February 3.
The plant has production capacity of some 300,000 barrels per day. In 2023 the Volgograd refinery processed 13.508 million metric tons of oil, or 4.9% of the total refining volume at Russian refineries.
SIBUR-KSTOVO
Russian petrochemicals giant Sibur said on January 29 that shipments of products from its Kstovo plant had been suspended after a Ukrainian drone attack.
It produces more than 770,000 tons of olefins and 130,000 tons of aromatic compounds per year.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Alison Williams, Alexandra Hudson)
