{"id":36360,"date":"2025-10-24T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/ukrainian-drone-disabled-one-of-russias-largest-oil-refineries-reuters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:02:02","slug":"ukrainian-drone-disabled-one-of-russias-largest-oil-refineries-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/ukrainian-drone-disabled-one-of-russias-largest-oil-refineries-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone disabled one of Russia&apos;s largest oil refineries \u2013 Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 23, a Ukrainian drone struck the Ryazan oil refinery, Russia&#039;s fourth-largest, halting operations at a key processing unit. This led to the shutdown of the CDU-4 crude oil primary distillation unit, which provided about a quarter of the plant&#039;s capacity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2F1761335753-2782-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Ukrainian drone disabled one of Russia&#039;s largest oil refineries \u2013 Reuters\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ryazan oil refinery, the fourth largest in Russia, suspended the operation of a key processing unit after a Ukrainian drone strike on October 23. Two sources in the energy industry told Reuters, UNN writes.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>According to them, after the attack, a fire broke out at the enterprise, as a result of which the CDU-4 crude oil primary distillation unit had to be urgently stopped, which provided about a quarter of the plant&#039;s total capacity &#8211; up to 80 thousand barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p>The Ryazan refinery is owned by Rosneft, which refused to comment on the incident. According to sources, the enterprise continues to operate, but in a limited mode. Some auxiliary facilities, including reforming, vacuum hydrotreating, and catalytic cracking units, are also stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries do not have Western support &#8211; Bloomberg14.09.25, 03:23 \u2022 46169 views<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed the strike on this oil refinery, which is located approximately 180 kilometers from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters notes that Kyiv has intensified attacks on Russia&#039;s energy infrastructure amid the stagnation of peace talks, which, mediated by US President Donald Trump, have not yielded concrete results.<\/p>\n<p>According to local authorities in Russia, due to drone strikes, several regions are already experiencing a shortage of motor fuel, and energy companies are forced to temporarily reduce production.<\/p>\n<p>General Staff confirms damage to Ryazan oil refinery and enemy ammunition depot in Belgorod region23.10.25, 14:30 \u2022 2668 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 23, a Ukrainian drone struck the Ryazan oil refinery, Russia&#039;s fourth-largest, halting operations at a key processing unit. This led to the shutdown of the CDU-4 crude oil primary distillation unit, which provided about a quarter of the plant&#039;s capacity. The Ryazan oil refinery, the fourth largest in Russia, suspended the operation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}