{"id":1431739,"date":"2026-08-25T13:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1431739"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:29:43","slug":"novoshakhtinsky-refinery-in-russia-stopped-after-drone-attack-what-s-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/novoshakhtinsky-refinery-in-russia-stopped-after-drone-attack-what-s-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Novoshakhtinsky Refinery in Russia Stopped After Drone Attack: What&#8217;s Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"222\"><strong>The Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation has temporarily stopped operations after a nighttime drone attack. The enterprise suffered damage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"295\">This was reported by the Governor of the Rostov Region, Yuriy Slyusar, on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"386\">According to him, the plant was damaged as a result of the attack, so its work had to be suspended.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"584\">&#8220;According to updated information, as a result of a nighttime enemy attack on the Rostov region, the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Refinery was damaged. The enterprise has temporarily suspended its work,&#8221; the Russian official noted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"584\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FkCdXONjK2k?si=gsDoaJFo47t7Z7A8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"714\">Local residents also posted videos in which drones can be heard flying overhead, Russian air defenses operating, and explosions near the enterprise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"968\">The plant&#8217;s design capacity is estimated at approximately 7.5 million tons of crude oil per year, which is about 112-115 thousand barrels per day. At the same time, some sources cite figures from 5.6 to 7.5 million tons per year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"968\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1431715 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Afipskyj-NPZ-1536x864-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Afipskyj-NPZ-1536x864-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Afipskyj-NPZ-1536x864-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Afipskyj-NPZ-1536x864-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Afipskyj-NPZ-1536x864-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Afipskyj-NPZ-1536x864-1-650x366.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1116\">The enterprise was put into operation in 2009. It became one of the first large oil refineries built in Russia in a long period.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1288\">The refinery is connected to the main oil pipelines of the Transneft system, as well as railway tracks through which raw materials are supplied and finished products are shipped.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1454\">The Novoshakhtyn plant has been the target of attacks on several occasions. In particular, on the night of May 31 this year, Ukrainian Neptune missiles damaged two oil refining facilities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1654\">The Ukrainian Navy stated that the Novoshakhtyn Oil Refinery is an important enterprise in the region&#8217;s fuel infrastructure and plays a role in providing Russian occupation forces with fuel and lubricants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1656\" data-end=\"1798\">On December 25, 2025, the plant was also hit by Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Then a large-scale fire broke out on the territory of the plant.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1656\" data-end=\"1798\">It was previously reported that the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck two important facilities of the Russian fuel and energy infrastructure &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zsu-distalysia-shche-dvokh-vazhlyvykh-ob-iektiv-rf-henshtab-pidtverdyv-urazhennia\/\">the Afipsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory and gas separation facilities at the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1656\" data-end=\"1798\">Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation has temporarily stopped operations after a nighttime drone attack. The enterprise suffered damage. This was reported by the Governor of the Rostov Region, Yuriy Slyusar, on Telegram. According to him, the plant was damaged as a result of the attack, so its work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1431719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76875,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1431739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431739","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431740,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431739\/revisions\/1431740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}