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Or sign-in if you have an account.Images of the Saratov refinery by NASA's FIRMS show fresh heat anomalies on Aug. 2. Source: Bloomberg(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian forces struck Rosneft PJSC’s refinery in Russia’s Saratov overnight as it continues to target its foe’s fuel producing industry on a near-daily basis. 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Ukraine hasn’t commented. The Saratov attack resulted in a fire at the refinery, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a Telegram statement. Ukraine’s forces also struck Engels airfield in the Saratov region, about 730 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow and over 1,000 km east of Kyiv, according to the statement. Get the latest headlines, breaking news and columns.By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of Top Stories will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try againThe Engels air base is a critical operating hub for Russian warplanes including the Tu-95 long-range strategic bomber, which has been used to launch cruise missile strikes against Ukraine, the General Staff said. Regional authorities said there was damage to civilian infrastructure in Saratov and Engels following the attack, which also killed two people. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv’s forces also hit an oil depot in Russia’s Kaluga region and on a drone storage facility in the Bryansk region. Images of the Saratov refinery captured Sunday by NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System show fresh heat anomalies that may indicate active fires. Ukraine’s forces intensified strikes on Russia’s refineries, including facilities far from the nations’ border, in the final days of July after a short lull over the previous couple of weeks. On Friday, Kyiv hit the Volgograd refiner, one of Russia’s largest, while attacks on Saturday targeted Ufa, home to three Bashneft refineries, in Russia’s Bashkortostan republic. Earlier on Sunday there was another massive drone attack on the republic’s industrial facilities that resulted in a fire at an industrial area in Ufa, Radiy Khabirov, head of Bashkortostan, said without providing details. Intensified attacks threaten to disrupt fuel supplies in Russia again, just as many regions across the country were increasing limits for gasoline and diesel sales at filling stations or even lifting them after a period of shortages. Following the attack on the Volgograd refinery, filling stations of Lukoil PJSC and Gazprom PJSC temporarily introduced gasoline rationing in the Volgograd region, according to regional authorities.The Saratov refinery, which has a design capacity of processing about 140,000 barrels of crude a day, was previously hit on July 8 and had restored operations after that attack. Rosneft didn’t immediately respond to a Bloomberg request for a comment sent via WhatsApp outside normal business hours. While Ukraine continues so successfully target Russian oil infrastructure, Zelenskyy said Russian enterprises not currently subject to Western sanctions are working to step up production of drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs. “The aggressor is investing more and more in its ballistic weapons capability and is trying to ramp up production,” Zelenskyy said on X. “Pressure is needed on every segment of Russia’s defense-industrial complex.” Alexey Likhachev, chief executive officer of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said a Ukrainian drone hit a passageway that connects six power units at the Zaporizhzhia plant overnight, several meters from the reactor compartment of the third unit. There was no explosion, he said, according to Rosatom’s in-house media service’s Telegram. Likhachev said Rosatom hopes Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will visit the Zaporizhzhia facility in the near future. Grossi has visited the plant several times since 2022. The IAEA hasn’t commented on Likhachev’s claims, which couldn’t be independently verified. On Saturday, the UN’s nuclear watchdog said the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeast Ukraine lost off-site power for the 23rd time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. During the outage emergency diesel generates provided back-up power for reacting cooling and other safety functions. (Updates with Russian comments on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power, Zelensky comments from second paragraph.) Join the Conversation This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.