Drone / missile attack

Refinery

Afipsky refinery — drone strike causes fire

25 August 2026 · Overnight

Afipsky, Krasnodar Krai, Russia

44.8844, 38.8247

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What happened

A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at the Afipsky oil refinery overnight, Krasnodar governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. Falling drone debris also struck the nearby Afipskaya railway station, where two people were killed and two injured, suspended station operations, and damaged at least ten homes; those casualties were reported at the railway station rather than inside the refinery. Reuters described Afipsky as an export-oriented refinery that processed about 7.2 million tonnes, or 144,000 barrels per day, in 2024 and has been targeted repeatedly. Ukraine's General Staff subsequently reported that the strike damaged an ELOU-AT processing unit, a gas-fractionation unit and a pipeline section. No refinery shutdown or quantified throughput loss had been independently confirmed, and the fire is no longer marked active because the initial live-response description is stale without a later status report.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Refinery
Weather context
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Latitude
44.8844°
Longitude
38.8247°

Attribution

Attributed to Ukraine🇺🇦

Sources

  1. Russia's Afipsky oil refinery on fire after drone attack, two dead, governor saysReuters, via Internazionale · Incident reporting
  2. Ukrainian drones strike southern Russia, killing two and sparking a fire at an oil refineryMeduza · Regional-authority and damage corroboration
  3. Afipskaya station operations suspended following UAV attackRossiyskaya Gazeta · Rail disruption corroboration
  4. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 27, 2026Institute for the Study of War, citing Ukraine's General Staff · Follow-up damage assessment identifying the ELOU-AT unit, gas-fractionation unit and pipeline section
  5. Krasnodar Krai news for 25 August: UAVs, petrol, prices, traffic and seaArgumenty i Fakty Krasnodar · Airspace-restriction cross-check
  6. GPSJam.org daily GPS-interference mapGPSJam.org · GPS-interference reference (link-out, not a verified reading)