Over the first 11 months of 2025, Ukraine’s Defense Forces conducted 140 attacks on oil refineries and other oil and gas facilities in the Russian Federation — more than in all of 2022–24 combined. A special map compiles data on every attack, showing drones and, reportedly, saboteurs striking across Russia — from Sochi to Vladivostok.
Strategic facilities on Russian territory were hit by explosive-laden drones as well as unidentified saboteurs, with 2025 seeing the highest number of attacks since the start of the full-scale war, according to the Telegram channel of the International Intelligence Community InformNapalm. Analysts tracked every strike on key targets in Russia over four years. They found that in the first 11 months of 2025 there were 140 attacks on refineries, compared with just 130 across 2022 to 2024.
Information on incidents at refineries and other Russian sites was collected from open sources, the analysts wrote. The data were plotted on the Fire map on Google Maps. The 2025 markers show the highest concentration of arson and explosions along the Ukrainian border, from Bryansk region to Krasnodar Krai. Most strikes in this belt were carried out by drones. The farthest range Ukrainian drones reached in 2025 was the Tyumen refinery, about 2,100 km away, in March. Other points on the map mark fires where drones were not reported; these likely involved other unidentified actors. The most distant such incident was a blaze roughly 6,000 km from Ukraine at the Khabarovsk refinery in April.
A map of 2022–24 strikes shows that during that period most drone attacks were confined to European Russia near Ukraine: from St. Petersburg in the north to Sochi in the south and as far east as Tatarstan. The farthest drones reached then was the TANECO refinery in Tatarstan, about 1,200 km away (April 2024). Over those three years, other incidents of unknown origin also occurred on Russian territory. For example, an unexpected gas explosion in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (July 2024) and burning fuel tanks in Angarsk (January 2023).
Bloomberg published data on Ukraine’s Defense Forces’ drone strikes in November 2025, showing a new record of 14 attacks, up from 13 the previous month. November’s tally is the highest since the war began. The strikes are continuing amid talks over a peace plan that would see Ukraine capitulate and accept Russia’s victory.
Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi also reported effective hits on Russian refineries, posting on December 2 a list of Russian plants and other oil and gas facilities struck by drones. The monthly total he cited was 88 targets across Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.
Also on December 2, Russian media reported a new attack on a refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. Locals reported strikes on a refinery and the port.
Separately, Turkish officials reported a drone raid on a Russian tanker that, according to Ukraine’s GUR, transports oil and stolen agricultural products from the temporarily occupied territories.
