The Novoshakhtinsk Oil Products Processing Plant, the largest in southern Russia, has shut down both primary oil refining units following an attack by Ukrainian drones. Source: Russian online newspaper The Moscow Times with reference to Reuters Details: The only plant in Russia's Rostov Oblast with a capacity of 5.

JSC Novoshakhtinsk Oil Products Plant in Russia’s Rostov region was attacked with Ukrainian-produced missiles and UAVs. — Ukrinform.

Initially, SBU drones attacked the facility to distract Russian air defenses, providing a "window" for Ukrainian missiles to strike the facility, an SBU source said.

Ukraine’s military said Thursday its air defenses shot down 45 of 85 Russian drones used in overnight attacks targeting the Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Poltava and Sumy regions.

Fire at Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery was extinguished at 6:45 a.m. local time, says Rostov's acting governor - Anadolu Ajansı

Ukraine struck Russian territory with at least 13 missiles and 84 drones, triggering a fire at an oil refinery in the southern Rostov region that burned for hours, Russian officials said on Thursday.

A night-time Ukrainian drone attack triggered a fire at the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Rostov region in southern Russia, the regional governor said early on Thursday, the second time in six months that the facility has been hit.

Local governor Yuri Slyusar said Russian air defence systems repelled a Ukrainian attack in which 10 missiles were fired at the Rostov region. Footage posted on social media showed the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery engulfed in flames.