💥 Attack

Ukrainian SSO elements struck the Novospassky Oil Refinery near Novospasske, Ulyanovsk Oblast overnight on October 28-29.

October 29, 2025 Novospasske, Ulyanovsk Oblast

Likely Reported by 3 independent sources

Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Censor.NET

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Entities

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Novospassky Oil Refinery (organization) Special Operations Forces (military_unit) Novospasskoye oil refinery (location) Prominvest holding company (organization) Ukrainian drones (weapon_system) NS-Oil oil refinery (location)

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Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian SSO struck Novospassky Oil Refinery in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces carried out deep-strike attacks overnight on Oct. 29 on two oil refineries and a gas processing facility in Russia

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian defense forces struck the Novospassky Oil Refinery in Ulyanovsk Region on the night of 29 October. The refinery processes 600,000 tonnes of oil per year (0.2% of Russia's total refining capacity) and produces petrol, diesel fuel and fuel oil.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:39.353Z

Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-29-2025