{"id":596792,"date":"2026-10-31T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=596792"},"modified":"2026-10-31T19:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:40:02","slug":"oil-refinery-catches-fire-in-russia-s-ufa-after-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/oil-refinery-catches-fire-in-russia-s-ufa-after-drone-attack","title":{"rendered":"Oil Refinery Catches Fire in Russia’s Ufa After Drone Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An oil refinery belonging to Bashneft-Novoil caught fire in Ufa after a drone attack. Astra reported<\/a>, citing an analysis of eyewitness photographs conducted by an OSINT analyst.<\/p>\n

In his assessment<\/a>, the L-35 catalytic reforming unit may have caught fire at the facility. It is used to produce a high-octane gasoline component and hydrogen needed to refine motor fuels. The outlet noted that without the stable operation of the unit, the refinery cannot produce modern types of fuel.<\/p>\n

Local residents claimed in chat groups that two facilities in Ufa had been attacked. The Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ also reported<\/a> several fire sites, believed to be at two oil refineries.<\/p>\n

Bashneft-Novoil is part of the Ufa oil refining complex, which is managed by Bashneft, a company owned by Rosneft. Bashneft operates three major oil refineries in Ufa’s Northern Industrial Zone, located virtually adjacent to one another: Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim, Bashneft-Novoil and Bashneft-UNPZ. Together, they form the Ufa oil refining complex, one of the largest in Russia. Its combined processing capacity reaches 23.5 million tonnes of crude oil per year.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Defence Ministry said<\/a> it had intercepted and destroyed 433 Ukrainian drones overnight over 19 regions, including Bashkortostan.<\/p>\n

Bryansk region Governor Yegor Kovalchuk<\/b> reported<\/a> a drone attack on a private house in the settlement of Klimovo. According to him, a 30-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man were killed, while five others were injured. Another three people were injured in other localities in the region.<\/p>\n

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An oil refinery belonging to Bashneft-Novoil caught fire in Ufa after a drone attack. Astra reported, citing an analysis of eyewitness photographs conducted by an OSINT analyst. In his assessment, the L-35 catalytic reforming unit may have caught fire at the facility. It is used to produce a high-octane gasoline component and hydrogen needed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":596795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ae619e883d8d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Oil Refinery Catches Fire in Russia\u2019s Ufa After Drone Attack"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143121,143122],"class_list":["post-596792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596799,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596792\/revisions\/596799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}