We've seen a lot of drone attacks on Russian refineries in the past several months but this one also became the one of deadliest drone attacks inside Russia since the war began.
A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on an industrial city about 550 miles east of Moscow was among the deadliest on Russian territory since the full-scale war began in 2022, demonstrating Kyiv’s growing ability to strike far beyond the conflict’s front lines.
At least 13 people were killed and 39 others wounded in the strikes, according to the local mayor. Russian investigators said that civilian and industrial sites had been hit in the city, Nizhnekamsk, which is home to one of Russia’s largest and most advanced oil refineries. In a statement, the country’s Investigative Committee said a child was among those killed.
Ukraine’s General Staff said that Ukrainian forces had struck the Taneko oil refinery, and that a fire had been recorded there.
Some video showing the result of the strike.
🔥🛢️Russia’s TANECO oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk came under a drone attack early this morning.
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 10, 2026
The refinery has a design processing capacity of about 15 million tonnes per year, making it one of Russia’s largest. pic.twitter.com/7fKNSkQm3b
This same site has been hit before. This clip from July shows workers standing outside and watching as drones approach the facility.
A crowd of workers at the Russian oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk gathered as if for an airshow to watch Ukrainian FP-1 strike drones attack their plant. https://t.co/Q4zge41fKI pic.twitter.com/dWw3HCQkTW
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 8, 2026
It was hit in March.
🔥🛢️ Massive explosion at the Russian Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, 1130km from the frontline. Capacity of the Taneko oil refinery is 8,7mln tons of oil annually. pic.twitter.com/GmLKHAQypo
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 31, 2026
Here's video of another strike on the same refinery from last November.
🔥🛢️ Russian Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk is burning right now. Capacity of the Taneko oil refinery is 8,7mln tons of oil annually. 1130km from the frontline. pic.twitter.com/E0AQmNvJy0
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) November 13, 2025
I've probably missed a few. Google suggests it has been hit at least five times but their list didn't include the strike in March. As always, the goal of these attacks is to disrupt Russia's economy and bring the war home for regular Russians.
As the war has largely reached a deadlock along the front lines in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv has sought to puncture the sense of normalcy that has defined life in most of Russia, even as thousands of Russian soldiers continue to die in the fighting. Ukraine has tried to exert enough social and economic pressure on President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to force him to seek a cease-fire along the current front lines.
Ukrainian drone attacks have disrupted air travel across Russia and prompted widespread mobile internet shutdowns. The strikes have also triggered the worst fuel crisis in the country’s recent history and inflicted immense damage on Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer. Ukraine has hit more than 20 warehouses belonging to the company.
There was also a second refinery hit today. This one was in Tobolsk which is even further east.
Russia’s largest petrochemical complex, ZapSibNeftekhim, is burning in Tobolsk, Tyumen region - more than 2,000 km from Ukraine.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) August 10, 2026
It was struck by Deep Strike units of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces in cooperation with the Black Spark resistance movement operating inside… https://t.co/ZjDeq0ESnU pic.twitter.com/X5cB2q5tql
/2. Burning gas processing plant in Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast, around 2,150 km from Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/DBSHWSmRVp
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 10, 2026
Despite the ongoing strikes, Russian gas lines are not as severe as they were a month ago. Russia has stopped gasoline exports and started importing gasoline to make up for losses. Still, there are lines happening in some areas.
The Lipetsk region is back in gasoline hell. This comes just days after Governor Igor Artamonov declared victory. On July 28 he announced the crisis was over. Supplies had stabilized, lines were shrinking, and they even dropped the odd-even fueling rules.
— medoyid_ua (@LetsArmUKR) August 10, 2026
Now in Yelets drivers… pic.twitter.com/FbqdjrCSvM
⚡️ ALERT
— DC_Global_News (@DC_Global_News) August 10, 2026
A fuel crisis is reportedly ongoing in Sochi, Russia, with gas station price boards showing shortages amid the disruption. pic.twitter.com/84RltSs7TM
Where you won't' see gas lines is in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia's two largest cities. Putin does his best to keep the populations there isolated from the war.
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