Drone / missile attack

Refinery

NORSI refinery, Kstovo — Ukrainian strike and fire reported

26 August 2026 · Overnight

Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

56.1500, 44.1800

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What happened

Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck Lukoil's NORSI refinery in Kstovo overnight and that a fire broke out at the facility. Associated Press reported the military statement, while locally posted imagery and regional drone alerts provided supporting context. No Russian authority or Lukoil damage assessment, affected processing unit, production halt or extinguishment time had been published at entry time, so the incident remains marked reported and the fire status should be updated when a final source becomes available. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy separately said Ukrainian forces hit 16 Russian targets during the preceding day, including oil facilities, airfields, a missile unit, a military enterprise and logistics sites, but did not identify all 16; that aggregate statement is retained as campaign context rather than converted into unsourced individual incidents.

When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.

Evidence
Reported / attributed
Confidence
Moderate
Infrastructure
Refinery
Current temperature
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Latitude
56.1500°
Longitude
44.1800°

Attribution

Claimed by Ukraine

Sources

  1. A Wildberries depot in Russia is hit again and destroyed as Ukraine extends its drone campaignAssociated Press · Incident reporting
  2. Zelenskyy: Ukraine hits 16 targets in Russia in one day, including missile unit and airfieldsUkrainska Pravda, citing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Campaign-level context; unnamed targets are not counted separately
  3. GPSJam.org daily GPS-interference mapGPSJam.org · GPS-interference reference (link-out, not a verified reading)