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  • Ukrainian drones took Ryazan’s blending unit after knocking out two of its four crude units
    Ukrainian drones struck the Ryazan oil refinery in Russia on the morning of 6 September and set one of its core units on fire, Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi reported. The unit produces the high-octane component the Rosneft plant needs for its higher grades of gasoline. Russian regional authorities acknowledged a fire without naming the site. Ryazan is situated southeast of Moscow, about 470 km from Ukraine. Ukraine has spent this year pushing long-range drones dee
     
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Ukrainian drones took Ryazan’s blending unit after knocking out two of its four crude units

Par : Yuri Zoria
6 septembre 2026 à 05:32

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Ukrainian drones struck the Ryazan oil refinery in Russia on the morning of 6 September and set one of its core units on fire, Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi reported. The unit produces the high-octane component the Rosneft plant needs for its higher grades of gasoline. Russian regional authorities acknowledged a fire without naming the site. Ryazan is situated southeast of Moscow, about 470 km from Ukraine.

Ukraine has spent this year pushing long-range drones deeper into Russia, working methodically through refineries, pipelines, and export terminals to cut the fuel that moves Russian armies and the oil income that pays for the war. The pressure now runs deep past Russia's borders, with the shortage reaching Central Asian markets.

What burned at Ryazan

Drones hit the low-temperature isomerization unit for pentane-hexane fractions, designated Izomalk-2-LIN-800, according to Militarnyi's analysis. The unit sits on the refinery's grounds and is one of the critically important links in the plant's production cycle.

It converts low-octane straight-run oil fractions into a cleaner high-octane blending component. That component is what allows the refinery to produce gasolines of the higher environmental classes, Euro-5 among them, without adding harmful additives. 

ukrainian drones took ryazan's blending unit after knocking out two its four crude units · post geolocation fire ryazan oil refinery drone strike russia 6 2026 sss ukraine news reports
Geolocation of the fire at the Ryazan oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone strike, Ryazan, Russia, 6 September 2026. Graphic: Militarnyi, imagery: ESRI
The refinery belongs to Rosneft and ranks among Russia's largest refining enterprises, with a capacity of about 17 million tons of crude a year. It makes motor gasolines of all grades, diesel, aviation kerosene, fuel oil, liquefied gases, bitumen, and petrochemical feedstock. Four crude distillation units sit on the site, along with equipment for vacuum gasoil hydrotreating, cracking, and catalytic reforming.

Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ published videos of the strike.

Ryzan Oil refinery pic.twitter.com/VcPfnSGgi4

— Exilenova+ (@Exilenova_plus) September 6, 2026

The same unit was hit in December

Drones already attacked this unit in December 2025 and damaged it. Earlier waves targeted the plant's ELOU-AVT-3, ELOU-AVT-6, and AVT-1 units.

By May 2026 the refinery had lost 90–100% of its refining capacity. Satellite imagery from 3 August 2026 showed Ukraine's Defense Forces had disabled two of the four crude distillation units on site.

Ukrainian drones struck the refinery in May, and FP-1 drones set it and a nearby warehouse burning in July.

Russian officials report a fire, not a target

Ryazan Oblast governor Pavel Malkov confirmed the region came under drone attack. Drone debris damaged residential buildings in Ryazan and Sapozhkovsky district, he stated, and a fire broke out at an enterprise he did not name. He said there were no casualties and that emergency services were working.

Russian news Telegram channel Astra said its analysis of photographs taken by residents established that the fire was on the grounds of the Ryazan refinery. Ukrainian channel Exilenova+, which tracks such attacks, also reported a hit on the plant.

Ryazan, locals report oil refinery is on fire after attack pic.twitter.com/0Dqhjo5FNI

— Exilenova+ (@Exilenova_plus) September 6, 2026

Russia's fuel squeeze

Ukraine's General Staff said strikes on 26 August and 1 September fully stopped two large refining enterprises: Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, and the Novatek-Ust-Luga complex in Leningrad Oblast. Both supply the Russian army.

Short of gasoline, Russia has been buying more fuel abroad. Moscow discussed importing gasoline from Kazakhstan in June, and a Kazakh refinery deal would cover 0.3% of Russian demand. Belarus increased its gasoline supplies to Russia nearly 20-fold in the first half of the year.

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