Reuters sees refinery shut Until 2027 after strikes

Jun 18

TSN reports that damage has stopped the Moscow oil refinery and says it will not resume production until 2027, attributing a repair estimate of at least six months to Reuters. It describes the refinery as the Moscow region's largest fuel supplier and gives large annual petrol and diesel output figures. The refinery was hit twice by Ukrainian drones during the month, according to TSN. The report recalls a fire roughly a week earlier, black smoke over Moscow and activation of the Carpet aviation-security plan in Moscow and other regions. It places the strikes within Ukraine's campaign against energy infrastructure that finances and supplies Russia's war. The six-month shutdown is a reported estimate, not an operator-confirmed reopening date.

TSN recalls a Ukrainian drone strike causing a large fire at Moscow's oil refinery roughly a week before its June 24 broadcast, with black smoke and the Carpet aviation-security plan. The refinery had been hit twice that month and stopped production. TSN attributes to Reuters a repair estimate of at least six months and a possible halt until 2027. This concerns cumulative damage from both June hits, rather than assigning all damage to June 18. Reopening timing remains a reported forecast. TSN's June 26 account explicitly recalls both June 16 and June 18 attacks and alleges severe cumulative refinery damage and an air-defence missile striking a fuel tank. That account does not assign the fuel-tank explosion or all damage to either individual attack. Its later Putin-response occurrence remains separately indexed.