Fifth Russian Refinery Shuts Down in April After Drone Strike

In Russia, the fifth oil refinery was shut down in April after attacks by Ukrainian drones.

Reuters reports this.

The next target was Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez, the seventh largest oil refinery in the Russian Federation.

After the drone attack on the Perm region, the enterprise partially stopped work. A fire broke out in the AVT-4 primary processing unit at the plant, which accounts for about 38% of the enterprise’s total capacity.

Due to the emergency shutdown of this unit, related production lines, including reforming and hydrotreating, had to be shut down.

According to Reuters, a fire also broke out at Transneft’s Perm linear production and dispatching station.

The fire engulfed a fleet of ten oil tanks with a total capacity of 380,000 cubic meters. This could affect oil supplies to refineries in the European part of Russia and to Western export ports.

The Lukoil plant is located more than 1,500 kilometers from Ukraine. In 2025, it produced about 2 million tons of gasoline and more than 5 million tons of diesel fuel.

Earlier in April, the Syzran, Novokuibyshev, Tuapse refineries, and Nizhegorodnaftoorgsintez also stopped after the attacks.

Reuters notes that Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure to reduce Moscow’s revenues, which are used to finance the war against Ukraine.

It should be noted that on April 28, the Defense Forces struck a number of important facilities of the Russian occupiers, including an oil refinery in Tuapse and a radar station in occupied Crimea.

We remind you that the Security Service of Ukraine reported damage to an oil pumping station near the city of Perm (Russia), more than 1,500 km from Ukraine’s state border.