The General Staff has confirmed that the Syzran oil refinery has ceased operations following an attack by the Defence Forces
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed that the Sizran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara Oblast has ceased operations following an attack carried out by the Defence Forces on 21 May 2026.
The General Staff reported that, following the previous strikes, the plant’s operations have been halted.
Equipment and tanks at the Yaroslavl production and control station, which was struck on 25 May, have also been damaged.
In addition, the strike on the Russian 1L125 ‘Niobium-SV’ radar station in Yarsk, Luhansk Oblast, has been confirmed. The strike on the facility was carried out on 24 May.
The General Staff noted that over the course of the day and into the night of 26 May, units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces struck a number of key Russian military targets.
In particular, a Russian command post in Ocheretine, Donetsk Oblast, and a command post of a Russian army regiment in Verkhnia Krynytsia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, were hit.
The Ukrainian military also struck the Russian occupiers’ drone control centres in the areas of Nesterianka in the Zaporizhzhia region and Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region.
In addition, a drone depot and a logistics depot in the Novopetrikivka area of Donetsk Oblast, as well as a logistics depot in Donetsk, were struck.
The Ukrainian Defence Forces also struck a railway tanker carrying fuel and lubricants in the Debaltseve area of the Donetsk region.
It was previously reported that the oil refinery in Syzran had ceased operations following an attack by Ukrainian drones. An oil refinery in Yaroslavl, one of the largest in Russia, was also hit.
