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Ukraine Strikes Tuapse Refinery Twice in 12 Days, Halting Russian Oil Exports
12 sources cited · archived at time of publication

[10]
BBC · 2026
"very painful"
[11]
South China Morning Post · 2026
"US-brokered talks on the war in Ukraine [are] on pause and Washington mainly focusing on the Iran war."
[12]
BBC · 2026
"Russian Africa Corps forces were forced to withdraw from the northern Malian city of Kidal after coordinated attacks by jihadist militants and separatists over the weekend of 26–27 April 2026."
[1]
South China Morning Post · 2026
"A Ukrainian drone attack has caused a 「large-scale fire」 at Russia's Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, forcing the evacuation of nearby buildings, local officials said on Tuesday. The Rosneft-owned refinery delivers oil products mainly for exports but operations have been halted since April 16 following an earlier drone attack, industry sources said."
[2]
BBC by Robert Brovdi · 2026
"If oil refineries are a tool to make money that's used for war, then they are a legitimate military target, subject to destruction."
[3]
BBC · 2026
"Putin extracts natural resources and converts them into blood dollars that they then direct against us in the form of Shahed drones and ballistic missiles."
[4]
BBC · 2026
"toxic rain"
[5]
BBC · 2026
"more than 1,000km"
[6]
BBC · 2026
"others already go twice as far."
[7]
Al Jazeera · 2026
"Russian oil exports slump as Ukraine hammers ports and refineries"
[8]
BBC by Robert Brovdi · 2026
"2% of Ukraine's military"
[9]
BBC by Robert Brovdi · 2026
"killing a record number of soldiers"