Ukrainian forces struck Moscow's largest oil refinery, resulting in significant damage depicted in Russian internet images.
Date note: The text states the attack happened on 'Sunday' relative to the headline date of Sept. 25, 2026 (which is a Wednesday). The preceding Sunday was Sept. 20, 2026.
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One of the most striking Russian internet images of the results of a Ukrainian attack on Moscow’s biggest oil refinery, on Sunday.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces struck Russian Gazpromneft-Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya Raion, Moscow City (roughly 450 kilometers from the Ukrainian border) on the night of September 19 to 20, causing a large fire and damaging the refinery’s AVT-6 primary oil processing unit, another complex oil processing unit, and an isomerization unit.
The Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya has stopped processing crude because of a Ukrainian drone attack on September 20.
Both of the refinery’s primary crude distillation units caught fire in the attack.
The Moscow Oil Refinery, owned by Gazprom Neft, has suspended crude oil processing after fires broke out at its primary oil processing units during a Ukrainian drone attack on September 20.
Both primary oil processing units caught fire after drones crashed onto the refinery’s premises on Sunday.
Overnight on Sept. 20, Ukrainian forces struck the Gazpromneft-Moscow Oil Refinery, causing large fires and filling the capital with smoke.
Over the weekend, Ukraine hit the Moscow Oil Refinery along with surrounding regional infrastructure in an unprecedented drone and missile attack comprising over 1,600 drones and missiles, including the previously undeployed 'Pelican' ballistic missile.
On September 20, the Gazpromneft-Moscow Refinery in Moscow was struck. According to the General Staff, an AVT-6 unit, an integrated oil refining unit, and an isomerization unit were hit.
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