{"id":1343764,"date":"2026-04-08T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1343764"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:18:41","slug":"russia-s-fourth-largest-oil-refinery-halted-after-ukrainian-drone-strikes-cpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-fourth-largest-oil-refinery-halted-after-ukrainian-drone-strikes-cpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Fourth-Largest Oil Refinery Halted After Ukrainian Drone Strikes \u2013 CCD"},"content":{"rendered":" <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Russia\u2019s largest oil refineries has halted operations after being targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes, according to Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UATV English<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRussia\u2019s fourth-largest refinery has stopped operating as a result of drone attacks,\u201d Kovalenko said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility in question is the Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in Russia\u2019s Nizhny Novgorod region, which has a processing capacity of around 320,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Ukraine\u2019s Defense Forces confirmed strikes on the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez plant in the city of Kstovo during the night of April 5.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The refinery is considered strategically important for Russia, supplying fuel not only to its armed forces but also to the Moscow region, accounting for nearly 30% of the country\u2019s total gasoline consumption.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an annual processing capacity of about 17 million tons of crude, the plant produces more than 50 types of petroleum products, including aviation and diesel fuel used by Russia\u2019s military-industrial complex and its forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Russia\u2019s largest oil refineries has halted operations after being targeted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1311302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1343764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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