Russia's Ilsky oil refinery in its southern Krasnodar region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, local authorities said on Tuesday, part of Kyiv's campaign to starve Russia's economy of oil revenues, Reuters reports.
Kyiv has been systematically targeting Russia's energy infrastructure in an effort to limit Moscow's ability to finance its more than four-year-oldwar in Ukraine at a time of high global oil prices.
The Ukrainian General Staff, which has repeatedly hit the Ilsky refinery this year, confirmed it had struck it again, saying the facility produced fuel for the Russian army fighting in Ukraine.
It was not immediately clear if the export-oriented refinery's operations had been disrupted or if there were any casualties. Nor was there any immediate word on whether the fire there had been put out.
The Ilsky refinery has a capacity of around 138,000 barrels per day.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that his forces had struck 15 Russian oil refineries in multiple attacks between January and May, creating shortages of fuel in Crimea and other Russian-held regions.
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