Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on August 24, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
A fire at Russia's Novoshakhtinsk refinery, caused by a Ukrainian drone strike, continues for the fourth day, affecting oil exports and involving extensive emergency response.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire at Russia's Novoshakhtinsk refinery was burning for the fourth day on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone strike, the acting governor of the region said.
A fire was reported at in Novoshakhtinsk on Thursday. The refinery there sells fuel mainly for export, and has annual capacity of 5 million metric tons of oil, or around 100,000 barrels per day.
Yury Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov region, said he had a meeting in Novoshakhtinsk.
"The fire area at the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant has now been reduced," he said on Telegram. "Since August 21, firefighters have been fighting a fire at the oil products plant... that was damaged as a result of an enemy attack."
He said 412 people and 150 different pieces of equipment were being used in the emergency response, including fire fighting trains.
(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
The fire at the Novoshakhtinsk refinery was caused by a Ukrainian drone strike.
The fire has been burning for four days as of Sunday.
The refinery has an annual capacity of 5 million metric tons of oil, which is around 100,000 barrels per day.
A total of 412 people and 150 different pieces of equipment are being used in the emergency response.
The acting governor, Yury Slyusar, mentioned that the fire area at the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant has now been reduced.
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