MOSCOW — A Ukrainian drone attack caused damage at a facility belonging to the Moscow oil refinery owned by Gazpromneft, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced Tuesday.
Sobyanin confirmed on the messaging platform Telegram that no one was hurt in the attack. “There were no casualties. Emergency services are working at the scene,” he wrote. The mayor did not provide information on whether the refinery’s day-to-day operations had been disrupted.
The refinery is the largest in the Moscow region. According to the most recent available figures from 2024, the facility processed 11.6 million tons of oil, yielding 2.9 million tons of gasoline and 3.2 million tons of diesel fuel.
Drone strikes on Russian oil refineries have been increasing sharply. Since the beginning of 2026, the number of such attacks has doubled compared to earlier periods, resulting in full or partial shutdowns at processing facilities and reduced output of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, according to official data, social media reports, and Reuters calculations.
The Gazpromneft refinery supplies the Moscow region, which had not previously been among the roughly dozen Russian regions experiencing fuel supply disruptions.
