# Ukraine Sustains Deep Strikes on Russian Refineries and Industrial Sites

A Russian envoy said Ukraine struck Russian territory up to 850 times a day over the past week as a Krasnodar refinery caught fire from a drone attack.

- Published: 2026-07-14T05:17:51.913Z
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- Publisher: Polylog (Global desk)
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- Sources: [TASS (refinery)](https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/27914475), [TASS (envoy)](https://tass.com/politics/2159867), [RIA Novosti](https://ria.ru/20260714/udary-2104672612.html)

Ukraine's campaign against Russian energy and industrial infrastructure continued overnight. [TASS reported](https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/27914475) that the Afipsky refinery in the Krasnodar region caught fire after a drone strike, one of a series of attacks on Russian fuel and industrial sites. Russian outlets also reported a drone strike on an industrial zone in Bashkiria, deep inside the country.

Moscow described the intensity as high. A Russian envoy, Rodion Miroshnik, [told TASS](https://tass.com/politics/2159867) that Ukraine had struck Russian territory up to 850 times a day over the past week and said more than 300 civilians had been harmed, figures that could not be independently verified. Russia said its own forces had struck military-industrial plants in Kyiv, [according to RIA Novosti](https://ria.ru/20260714/udary-2104672612.html), as part of its retaliation against Ukraine's power grid and defense industry.

The exchange fits a pattern in which each side targets the other's economic capacity. Ukraine aims at the refineries and logistics that fund Russia's war, while Russia strikes Ukraine's grid and arms production. Both sides' casualty and damage claims are contested.

## What this means

Repeated strikes on Russian refineries reduce the country's fuel-processing capacity and put pressure on the oil revenue that finances the war, adding to the fuel rationing and domestic strain already visible in Russia's economy. The exposure is to Russian export earnings and to global markets for refined fuel, because lost refining capacity can tighten diesel and gasoline supply even when crude oil continues to flow.

## What to watch

- Russian domestic fuel prices and any expansion of rationing, which would show the strikes are cutting supply.
- The share of Russian refining capacity offline at any time, because a rising figure points to falling export revenue.
- Russian retaliation against Ukraine's grid heading into winter, since sustained damage would deepen Ukraine's energy crisis.