{"id":1414064,"date":"2026-07-04T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-has-disabled-approximately-43-of-russias-oil-refining-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:46:50","slug":"ukraine-has-disabled-approximately-43-of-russias-oil-refining-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-has-disabled-approximately-43-of-russias-oil-refining-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine has disabled approximately 43% of Russia&#8217;s oil refining capacity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By early July, Ukrainian defense forces had disabled 42.74% of the Russian oil refining industry&#8217;s total design capacity. In June alone, Ukrainian forces successfully attacked eight oil refineries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.<\/p>\n<p> According to the military, large-scale strikes on Russia&#8217;s oil refining infrastructure have led to record downtime in the industry.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Record downtime: 42.74% of Russia&#8217;s total oil refining capacity has been disabled as a result of the attacks. Eight oil refineries have been successfully attacked over the past month,&#8221; the General Staff noted.<\/p>\n<p> It is also reported that for the economic year from August 2025, the total damage to the Russian oil industry reached $13.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p> Furthermore, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed or critically damaged more than 60 oil and petroleum product storage tanks. Of these, 58% were used to store petroleum products, and another 42% were used to store crude oil.<\/p>\n<p> The General Staff emphasized that the consequences of these strikes included a fuel crisis in Russia, reduced production, and delays in repairs to damaged facilities due to the inability to obtain necessary spare parts and equipment.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense noted that during June, \u201cthere were almost no days when any Russian city did not see the consequences of its aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Incidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rosii-vpalo-vyrobnytstvo-benzynu-palyvna-kryza-okhopliuie-novi-rehiony-zmi\/\">Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries are increasingly impacting the Russian fuel industry<\/a> . Gasoline production has significantly declined, and fuel shortages are already affecting regions located thousands of kilometers from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zaliznychni-mosty-u-krymu-ta-moskovskyy-npz-u-henshtabi-pidtverdyly-udary-po-vazhlyvykh-ob-iektakh-rosiian\/\">the results of strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces against Russian military installations on June 18 and the night of June 19, 2026.<\/a> Among the targets hit were railway bridges in temporarily occupied Crimea, military infrastructure, and the Moscow Oil Refinery.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-rostovskiy-oblasti-pislia-udaru-sso-spalakhnuly-naftobaza-ta-baza-pmm\/\">struck two fuel facilities in Russia&#8217;s Rostov Oblast<\/a> on the night of June 18. Following the attack, fires broke out at the oil depot and fuel and lubricants depot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By early July, Ukrainian defense forces had disabled 42.74% of the Russian oil refining industry&#8217;s total design capacity. In June alone, Ukrainian forces successfully attacked eight oil refineries. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this. According to the military, large-scale strikes on Russia&#8217;s oil refining infrastructure have led to record downtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1378998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1414064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}