💥 Attack

Ukrainian General Staff drones struck the Samara Oil Refinery, causing two big fires in the cracking tower, and the adjacent Samara Oil Transport Line handling 50 percent of Russian Urals oil export.

September 20, 2025 Samara, Samara

Verified Independently confirmed by 4 sources

Stefan Korshak (Substack) Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Censor.NET

Multiple high-reliability sources confirm the core facts of this event.

Entities

Ukrainian General Staff (military_unit) Samara Oil Refinery (location) Samara Oil Transport Line (location) Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Samara Linear Production and Dispatching Station (location) Ukrainian Armed Forces (organization) Rosaviatsia (organization) SSU's Central Special Operations Unit (military_unit) Armed Forces of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Samara line-production dispatch station (location) Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) LVDS Samara (location)

Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian General Staff drones struck the Samara Oil Refinery, causing two big fires in the cracking tower, and the adjacent Samara Oil Transport Line handling 50 percent of Russian Urals oil export.

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian General Staff reported the strike on the LPDS facility which processes Urals crude oil.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian drones struck a refinery in Novokuybyshevsk, Samara Oblast; residents reported a large blaze

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

The station was hit by Ukrainian drones and stopped working.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.750Z

Source story: day-1303b-2025-09-22