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Russian authorities said a major drone attack overnight targeted an “industrial enterprise” in Nizhny Novgorod oblast, amid reports a key oil refinery was hit in the region.
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In a message posted on Telegram, regional governor Gleb Nikitin said a “massive drone attack” caused “significant damage” to an industrial facility in the Kstovsky district.
“More than 100 drones were destroyed,” he wrote, adding that initial reports suggested there were no casualties and that emergency teams were working on the scene.
“While restoration work is underway, there may be temporary power outages, as well as a reduction in hot water and heating supplies in some sections of public networks serving residential buildings,” Nikitin said.
Telegram war monitoring channels reported that an attack targeted the Kstovo oil refinery, also known as the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery, considered one of the largest facilities of its type in Russia.
According to Lukoil, the site is involved in, among other things, the production of diesel and aviation fuel.
Earlier this week, a major fire reportedly broke out at another oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region following a drone attack, with dramatic images and video footage posted on social media showing several towering columns of black smoke filling the horizon.
The incident followed reports that Ukraine had suspended its strikes on Russian refineries under pressure from Washington, which blamed the attacks on rising global diesel prices and sought to shift blame for its war on Iran.
Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure this year, particularly targeting facilities such as oil refineries, terminals and depots, in a bid to hit a key Russian economic engine and destroy the Kremlin’s war machine.
The latest reported attack comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said around 280,000 Ukrainian homes were without power after Russian strikes on Ukraine on Friday evening.
“Russian strikes have created a difficult electricity supply situation in our regions,” Zelenskyy wrote in a post on
The Ukrainian leader said Russian forces struck, among other targets, a “combined heat and power plant” in kyiv as well as four electricity substations in the eastern Dnipro region.
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