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Struck the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl on Sept. 17 and Rostov Airfield on Sept. 18. On Sept. 24-25, hit the Perm and Novoshakhtinsk refineries, two radar stations near Novoshakhtinsk, and the Iskra electronics plant in Ulyanovsk. On Sept. 26, struck the Ilsky and Afipsky refineries in Krasnodar Krai. Reported striking at least 16 targets in September, and Ukraine's Defense Ministry said the strikes disabled more than 51% of Russia's refining capacity.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Oct. 5 that long-range strikes have disabled more than 51% of Russia's oil refining capacity, an assessment that could not be independently verified. Putin acknowledged at the Valdai Club forum that the strikes cost Russia roughly 1% of GDP.
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Operating over 100,000 drone sorties per month
On April 20, Ukraine struck two large Russian Navy landing ships — the Yamal and the Nikolai Filchenkov — in Sevastopol Bay, disabling an estimated $150 million in naval assets and destroying a Podlet-K1 radar station. The same night, drones hit the Tuapse oil refinery in Krasnodar for the second time in a week, igniting tank farm fires at one of Russia's ten largest refineries. These were the latest in a sustained campaign that has forced Russia's Black Sea Fleet to abandon its historic base in Crimea and retreat to Novorossiysk, where it is still being hit.
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