Reuters: Major Oil Refinery Shut Down In Russian Federation After Ukraine Attack

• 10.12.2025, 8:30

The repair work could last about a month.

A Russian oil refinery in Syzran halted oil processing on December 5 after being damaged by a Ukrainian drone attack, the Reuters news agency wrote.

Ukraine and Russia continue to attack energy infrastructure as peace talks fail to progress.

The Ukrainian military on Friday said it carried out long-range strikes overnight on an oil refinery in the Russian city of Syzran and the port of Temryuk in the Krasnodar region.

The agency's sources said the drones hit the CDU-6 primary oil refining unit, which is the refinery's main equipment, and had already been targeted by drones in August before needing two weeks of repairs. The current repair work could last about a month.

According to the agency's sources in the industry, last year the Syzran refinery's oil processing was well below its design capacity at about 90,000 barrels per day, or 4.3 million metric tons.

The refinery produced 800,000 tons of gasoline, 1.5 million tons of diesel fuel and 700,000 tons of fuel oil last year.