Ukraine struck two more Russian oil refineries on Friday, setting fire to Lukoil's Perm facility and a smaller plant in Novoshakhtinsk, even as Washington pushes both sides toward an energy-assets truce. The attacks land as global diesel prices surge and Russia keeps a temporary ban on most fuel exports in place.
Ukraine's General Staff said in a Telegram statement Friday that it hit two more Russian oil refineries. The strikes hit Lukoil PJSC's facility in the Perm region and a smaller plant in Novoshakhtinsk, in Russia's southern Rostov region, and both caught fire after the attacks.
Rostov governor confirms halted operations
Lukoil didn't respond to a request for comment, but Rostov governor Yury Slyusar said the Novoshakhtinsk refinery halted operations after a swarm of drones attacked the region. Satellite imagery from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System showed heat anomalies in an industrial area of Perm, including the refinery site, pointing to possible fires there too.
The Perm facility processes 260,000 barrels a day and was last attacked by drones earlier this month. The Novoshakhtinsk plant handles 110,000 barrels a day and was struck a month ago. Ukraine has kept up the campaign to reduce the Kremlin's ability to produce and sell oil products and to create public discontent with the invasion. According to Zelenskyy: "We are responding to Russia's brutal strikes against life", he said on X Friday.
US pushes an energy-assets truce as diesel prices surge
Earlier in the week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held separate meetings with representatives of the Trump Administration on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The US has pushed both sides to agree to a truce on energy-asset strikes as global diesel prices surge, though a deal remains elusive.
Russian forces, meanwhile, kept up strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure amid air defense shortages. Eight regions of Ukraine came under attack overnight, with one person killed in Odesa and a 14-year-old boy killed in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said.
The loss of fuel supplies has forced Russia to impose a temporary ban on most exports of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The White House is also weighing a possible US diesel-export ban of its own to bring down surging domestic prices.
Source: Rigzone
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