Upcoming strikes by Ukrainian UAVs could damage much of Russia’s oil refining capacity, analysts say.
Ukrainian drone attacks and recent floods have pushed Russia’s weekly oil output to an 11-month low. But this indicator is still not critical for the Russian economy. This was reported by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Analysts recalled that on April 2, Ukrainian drone attacks disabled 14% of all oil refining capacities in Russia.
In addition, the flood in the Orenburg region on April 7 led to the disabling of the Orsk oil refinery. At the same time, the Reuters news agency wrote that on April 23, this refinery resumed full operation.
Experts noted that the decline in Russian oil refining capacity forced Russia to import fuel from Kazakhstan and Belarus in early April to solve shortages and try to prevent rising domestic fuel prices. .
“A future Ukrainian drone strike could knock out most of Russia’s oil refining capacity and lead to critical restrictions on Russian oil refining, which would begin to significantly affect the production of distillates in Russia,” said analyst.
At the same time, ISW noted that the Ukrainian drone strike has not yet had a significant impact on Russian oil refining production or on domestic Russian or international supplies of crude oil and distillates.
As we already wrote, in the early hours of Wednesday, April 24, a fire broke out at an oil depot near the Russian city of Smolensk after an attack by a UAV.
Let’s add that Russian oil depots were also hit on March 24 in occupied Crimea. There, an oil depot is burning in the village of Gvardeyskoye.
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Source: korrespondent
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