Last night, Ukraine attacked the Lukoil refinery in the city of Kstovo located in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. This refinery, also known as Norsi, is the fourth largest in Russia and the second largest producer of gasoline in the country. The processing capacity of this refinery is approximately 15 to 17 million tons of crude oil per year.
Details of the Attack on the Refinery
According to Ukrainian officials, this attack occurred on November 1 and resulted in damage to an industrial unit in Kstovo County. The governor of Nizhny Novgorod announced that more than 100 Ukrainian drones were destroyed in this attack, and initial reports do not indicate any casualties. This attack is considered one of several attacks by Ukraine on Russian refineries in recent months.
Russia's Retaliatory Attacks on Ukrainian Infrastructure
Meanwhile, Russia also attacked the power grid of four Ukrainian provinces last night, including Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi. Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, announced that in these attacks, power facilities, transformers, and transmission lines were targeted, leaving hundreds of thousands of families in Ukraine without electricity. Zelensky also mentioned the firing of 1,940 drones and 1,580 guided bombs by Russia in the past week and called for the immediate delivery of Patriot missiles.
Attacks on Ukraine's power grid have increased in recent weeks, and in one of the recent attacks on November 1, a power and heating plant in Dnipro was targeted, resulting in power outages for approximately 200,000 families.
These developments indicate a worsening of tensions between Russia and Ukraine and their direct impact on the critical infrastructure of both countries. Additionally, these attacks will affect the energy market and energy supply in both countries.
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