MOSCOW, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A fire at Russia's Novoshakhtinsk refinery was burning for the fourth day on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone strike, the acting governor of the region said.

A fire was reported at in Novoshakhtinsk on Thursday. The refinery there sells fuel mainly for export, and has annual capacity of 5 million metric tons of oil, or around 100,000 barrels per day.

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Yury Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov region, said he had a meeting in Novoshakhtinsk.

"The fire area at the Novoshakhtinsk oil products plant has now been reduced," he said on Telegram. "Since August 21, firefighters have been fighting a fire at the oil products plant... that was damaged as a result of an enemy attack."

He said 412 people and 150 different pieces of equipment were being used in the emergency response, including fire fighting trains.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fire-russias-novoshakhtinsk-refinery-burns-fourth-day-after-drone-attack-2025-08-24/