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Sources say that the Russian oil refinery in Novokuibyshevsk halted its operations following drone attacks.

Two industry sources confirmed that the primary oil processing has been stopped at Russia's Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery since August 2, following an attack by a Ukrainian drone last week.

This was the first drone attack on a major Russian refinery since March 2025.

The announcement came after U.S. president Donald Trump set a 10- to 12-day deadline for Moscow and Kiev to reach a ceasefire or face consequences. This underscored his frustration with the ongoing 3-1/2-year conflict.

Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Special Envoy to Israel, is expected to visit Russia in this week's time after his current trip to Israel.

Novokuibyshevsk has a refining capacity that is 8,3 million metric tonnes of oil per annum (or about 160,000 barrels of oil per day).

Rosneft didn't respond to our request for a comment immediately.

Sources claim that the attack on the Novokuibyshevsk Refinery damaged the CDU-11, which is the primary oil refinery unit.

The refinery is divided into two main units. CDU-11 has a daily capacity of 18,900 tons and CDU-9 has a daily capacity of 4,700 tonnes.

The refinery planned on stopping CDU-9 from August until early September for major maintenance.

Sources claim that the Novokuibyshevsk refinery processed about 18,000 tonnes of crude oil per a day.

According to industry sources, last year the refinery processed 5,74 million tons crude oil and produced 1,10 million tonnes of motor gasoline, 1,64 million tonnes of diesel fuel, as well as 1.27 millions tons of fuel oil. Reporting by In Moscow; Editing Bernadettebaum

(source: Reuters)