Russia’s 7-Million-Ton Kuibyshev Refinery Burns Again After Drone and Missile Strike

Drones and missiles struck the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region, sparking several fires across the facility, according to footage published by the OSINT community Exilenova+ and reports from Russian media Astra on June 10.

Samara region governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said the region had come under a drone and missile attack.

The Kuibyshev refinery is one of the largest oil industry facilities in the region and is part of Rosneft.

The plant has a designed processing capacity of around 7 million tons of oil per year. It mainly produces gasoline and diesel fuel, as well as aviation kerosene and fuel oil.

The refinery has already been targeted several times during the war. It was attacked in January this year, while in August 2025, the plant reportedly halted operations after a drone strike.

Before that, in March 2024, attack drones damaged one of the units at the Kuibyshev refinery, also forcing the production cycle to stop.

Following the oil industry strikes, restrictions on gasoline sales now spread to at least 20 regions across Russia and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, driven by Ukrainian drone strikes on the country’s oil refineries.

Fuel disruptions tied to the strikes have affected no fewer than 15 Russian federal subjects, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, while purchase limits have been introduced in five temporarily occupied Ukrainian regions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Ukraine is preparing to match Russia’s daily strike capacity with its own domestic production surge.

Kyiv’s target is to manufacture up to 600 drones and missiles per day—a pace designed not only to defend against Russian attacks, but to ensure Moscow faces consequences at the same scale it is trying to impose on Ukraine.

Previously, a drone strike sparked a fire at the Grushova industrial tank farm near Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

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