Diesel prices are surging putting further pressure on Europe. Ukraine is only part of the story.
Trucks, farms and industry are powered with diesel. Now prices are soaring due to refinery disruptions, supply shortages and geopolitical tensions. A potential US export ban could make Europe's diesel crunch even worse.
Ukrainian drones targeted two fuel depots in Krasnodar Krai overnight on September 28, setting them ablaze, according to Militarnyi. The depots struck were the NFB-Pavlovskaya depot in Pavlivska and the Edelveys-95 depot near Novotytarivska, located about 25 km from Krasnodar. This marks one of many deep-strike drone operations by Ukraine, which have crippled a significant portion of Russia's refining capacity over the past year, targeting refineries and fuel depots that store and distribute output.
Washington has urged Kyiv to be more cautious with their targeting of Russian refineries, while Ukraine has proposed a possible energy truce, a proposal Moscow has rejected. Residents in the region heard six explosions near the railway, prompting a drone alert at 23:43. Ukrainian news Telegram channel Astra later reported drones overhead and at least six explosions near the railway.
Fires erupted at both depots, confirmed by NASA FIRMS satellite data around 04:24, citing imagery from Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova+. The NFB-Pavlovskaya depot handles petroleum products, including wholesale trade in motor fuel and petroleum storage, while Edelveys-95 specializes in wholesale distribution of diesel fuel and various grades of gasoline.
Edelveys-95 has a capacity of 4,500 cubic meters and features its own rail siding for fuel transport, having been in operation for 30 years by buying directly from Russia's largest refineries.
Just two days prior, SBU drones struck the Ilskyi oil refinery in the same region on September 26, igniting fires near the ELOU-AVT unit and tank farm. Ilskyi, one of Russia's largest refineries in the Southern Federal District with a design capacity of 6.6 million tonnes of crude annually, has been attacked over 18 times since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Ukraine's persistent drone strikes on Russian fuel infrastructure have already led to fuel shortages in Central Asia and forced Moscow to seek emergency refining deals abroad.
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