Ukraine Drones Strike Rosneft's Ryazan Oil Refinery — 3 Killed, Fires Break Out at Russia's 3rd-Largest Facility

In the early hours of May 15, 2026, Ukrainian drone forces struck the Rosneft-owned Ryazan oil refinery approximately 200 km southeast of Moscow — Russia's third-largest petroleum processing facility with a capacity of 17 million tonnes per year. Vacuum distillation units caught fire; residents reported drones flying overhead and woke to find black oil droplets on their cars and windows. The Ryazan regional governor confirmed 3 people were killed and 12 injured in the attack. Ukraine's drone forces commander Robert Brovdi confirmed the strike was part of a broader overnight operation that targeted 23 military and industrial facilities inside Russia and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. This was the third Ukrainian strike on the Ryazan refinery in 2026, marking a sustained campaign against Russian energy infrastructure. The attack further strained Russia's domestic refining capacity, which has already been curtailed by previous Ukrainian strikes on refineries in Ust-Luga, Primorsk, Yaroslavl, and Tuapse.