Russia's Ilsky oil refinery on fire after overnight Ukrainian drone attack

The Ilsky ⁠refinery ​has a capacity of around 138,000 barrels per day. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy 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.

​Russia's Ilsky oil ‌refinery in its ​southern Krasnodar region caught fire after an overnightUkrainian drone attack, local authorities said ‌on Tuesday, part of Kyiv's campaign to starve Russia's economy of oil revenues.

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 Zelenskiy 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.