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    Ukrainian forces launched a long-range drone strike on key Russian oil and drone infrastructure overnight on 16 November 2025, according to the Ukrainian Army’s General Staff. The attack targeted the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Samara Oblast in Russia's Volga region around 900 km from the war zone in Ukraine, and struck a drone storage site belonging to Russia’s elite Rubikon unit in occupied Donetsk Oblast. Militarnyi says the assault was carried out using newly reveal
     
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Ukraine strikes Russia’s major Russian refinery with new jet-powered drones (VIDEO)

Par :Yuri Zoria
16 novembre 2025 à 09:11

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Ukrainian forces launched a long-range drone strike on key Russian oil and drone infrastructure overnight on 16 November 2025, according to the Ukrainian Army’s General Staff. The attack targeted the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Samara Oblast in Russia's Volga region around 900 km from the war zone in Ukraine, and struck a drone storage site belonging to Russia’s elite Rubikon unit in occupied Donetsk Oblast. Militarnyi says the assault was carried out using newly revealed Bars drones.

This comes as Russia continues its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022. While Russian forces conduct ground assaults and daily drone attacks on residential areas and energy infrastructure, Ukraine persists with its deep-strike aerial campaign against Russian oil refineries. These strikes aim to disrupt military fuel logistics and undermine export revenues that fund the war. Ukraine also targets fuel storage sites, military facilities, and, in retaliatory attacks, some Russian power substations.

Ukraine hits Novokuybyshevsk refinery again with Bars drones

The Ukrainian General Staff shared the footage of launches of either land-based cruised missiles or jet-propelled drones and said its attack was part of a wider campaign to degrade Russia’s offensive capabilities and disrupt supply lines delivering fuel and munitions to the front.

The strike reportedly hit the Novokuybyshevsk refinery, one of Russia’s main producers of top-grade jet fuel for its military. The refinery, with an annual processing capacity of 8.8 million tons, produces more than 20 types of commercial products and plays a key role in supplying the Russian occupation forces.

Eyewitness reports cited by Militarnyi said residents of Novokuybyshevsk observed multiple drones flying overhead, followed by dozens of explosions and a large blaze lighting up the sky near the refinery.

The General Staff says the level of damage is still being assessed, but fire and explosions were confirmed in the area of the strike.

According to Militarnyi, this marks the sixth Ukrainian attack on the same refinery and the fifth just this year. A previous strike overnight on 18–19 October 2025 led to a full shutdown of the facility. Operations had resumed only in early November.

The refinery is part of Novokuybyshevsk Petrochemical Company, one of the five largest producers of gas processing, petrochemical, and synthetic organic products in Russia and Eastern Europe. In 2024 alone, the plant processed 5.74 million tons of crude oil, producing 1.10 million tons of gasoline, 1.64 million tons of diesel fuel, and 1.27 million tons of fuel oil.

 
The Ukrainian military also updated damage assessments from a recent strike on the Ryazan oil refinery. That attack reportedly damaged two oil processing units — ELOU-AVT-4 and ELOU-AVT-6 — along with a fuel storage tank and pipeline trestles. 
 

Rubikon drone unit and fuel depot also hit

The GenStaff said that alongside the refinery strike, Ukrainian forces also targeted a drone warehouse operated by Rubikon — Russia’s elite drone unit active in current combat operations — in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast. A fuel and lubricants pumping station in the same area was also hit. The Ukrainian General Staff said these facilities were used to support Russia’s frontline forces.

Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, confirmed that the attack was conducted by the 1st Separate Center of Unmanned Systems in cooperation with Special Operations Forces and the Main Intelligence Directorate.

New long-range Bars drones used in attack

Militarnyi believes that footage released by the Ukrainian General Staff showed the launch of jet-powered Bars drones used in the operation. The Bars drone type was first publicly mentioned in April 2025 by then-Minister for Strategic Industries Herman Smetanin during the “Ukrainian Weapons 2024” briefing.

Although information on the Bars drone remains limited, BBC previously reported it as a private development similar to the Peklo cruise missile-drone. A source familiar with the design described Bars as a medium-range strike system capable of flying between 700 and 800 kilometers — a range sufficient to reach deep into Russian territory.

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