Key facts
- Bloomberg said NASA satellite imagery taken on Monday showed a heat anomaly that could mean fires at the Samara pumping station.
- The Novokuibyshevsk refinery, part of Rosneft's Samara Group, was hit in a drone attack on Friday.
- Weekend strikes hit a Rosneft refinery in Bashkortostan and Lukoil's Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod.
- Trump has pressured Ukraine to halt refinery strikes ahead of the US midterm elections, Bloomberg reported.
- The US national average retail diesel price was $6.29 a gallon as of November 2, up from $3.68 a year earlier.
Ukraine struck three Russian oil refineries between Friday and the weekend, resuming attacks on Russian energy infrastructure after a two-week pause, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The Novokuibyshevsk refinery, one of the leading refineries in Russia's Volga region and part of Rosneft's Samara Group, was targeted in a drone attack on Friday, the first Ukrainian strike on a Russian refinery since October 15. Over the weekend, Ukrainian drone attacks hit a Rosneft refinery in Bashkortostan and Lukoil's Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod.
Bloomberg, citing NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System, reported that satellite imagery taken on Monday showed a relatively fresh heat anomaly that could mean fires at the Samara crude oil pumping station in the Volga region. Reports of the potential attack emerged in Ukrainian media.
US President Donald Trump has pressured Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian refineries ahead of the US midterm elections, and Trump and his administration have accused Ukraine of contributing to the diesel crisis, Bloomberg reported. Last month, Trump claimed he had helped broker an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. As of November 2, the US national average retail diesel price was $6.29 a gallon, up from $3.68 a gallon a year earlier, according to the report.