Overview
- Russia reported a wave of overnight drone strikes on its south and southwest regions on Tuesday that hit the Afipsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai and damaged the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Rostov, with Afipsky catching fire and suspending some operations.
- Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said falling drone debris killed two people and injured two others near the Afipsky railway station, while regional authorities and facility statements reported damage to homes and ongoing assessments of refinery systems.
- Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed strikes on Afipsky and said forces hit units at the Astrakhan gas processing plant, with some Ukrainian sources saying long‑range FP‑1 drones carried out the attacks.
- The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defences intercepted large numbers of aerial targets overnight, reporting 148 engagements, a figure Moscow uses to stress defenses even as independent technical assessments of damage and output losses remain incomplete.
- The strikes deepen a monthslong Ukrainian campaign to degrade Russian fuel supplies and revenue, which has contributed to a domestic fuel crunch in Russia and led Moscow to push private owners to harden facilities or face temporary state management, raising escalation and economic ripple‑effect risks.