Water level of Danube near Slovak capital Bratislava hits historical low

/ Image by Peter Tóth from PixabayFacebook

TwitterLinkedInTelegramFlipboardFeedly

By bne IntelliNews October 7, 2026

The water level of the largest European river, the Danube, at the Slovak capital Bratislava has fallen to the lowest level since measurement began in 1900.

The average daily water flow at the Devín section of the river just outside Bratislava reached 575.9 cubic metres per second on October 5, the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ) reported on October 6.

“The Danube, one of the most significant European rivers, rewrites more than hundred years of its history,” SHMÚ stated, adding that the previous “historic minimum from January 1900” was deepened by “another 4.1m3/s".

This summer, Slovakia was coping with a severe drought, which also hit other countries in the region. SHMÚ noted that June, July and August this year “were assessed as below normal to dry months”, and that average water flow reached “only about 36% of the long term monthly values”.  September was assessed as significantly below normal.

Slovakia also reported very low water levels in other major rivers as well as water reservoirs. The summer of 2026 was the third hottest since 1931 and the sixth driest since 1881, Czech online news outlet Novinky.cz noted.

 

EU should tap financial, digital and wealth taxes to fund priorities, wiiw says

FacebookTwitter

LinkedInTelegramFlipboardFeedly

By IntelliNews October 7, 2026

The European Union should broaden the sources of revenue funding its budget to include financial transactions, digital companies and wealthy individuals as it faces rising costs for defence, competitiveness and the green transition, the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) said on October 7.

The EU needs to raisebns of euros in additional funding as it confronts higher defence spending and seeks to strengthen its economy while financing its green and digital transitions. The European Commission has proposed a budget of almost €2 trillion for 2028-2034, with new and adjusted EU revenue sources expected to raise €58.2bn annually.

In a study, wiiw economists Bernhard Schütz and Philipp Heimberger argued that the bloc should become less dependent on contributions from member states and develop a broader range of EU-level revenue sources.

"Even greater dependence on member states’ contributions risks narrowing the debate over the EU budget further to the question of which country pays how much, rather than focusing on how to address the challenges of our time and how to finance the measures needed to tackle them," Heimberger said.

The researchers said a wider mix of revenue sources could distribute the financing burden more evenly, make it easier for governments to reach agreement on the EU budget and reduce tax competition between member states.

The current system relies heavily on national contributions linked to gross national income and value-added tax, meaning that labour and consumption indirectly bear much of the burden.

Labour accounted for 52% of total tax revenue in the EU in 2024, while consumption accounted for 27%, according to the study. Capital and wealth taxes contributed just 5% and 2%, respectively.

The economists therefore called for greater use of taxes that draw revenue from financial markets, digital activity and wealth.

A financial transaction tax could generate tens ofbns of euros annually depending on its design and participation, while potentially discouraging high-frequency trading that can contribute to financial-market volatility, the study said.

A common EU digital tax could raise as much as €26bn a year, according to the researchers. Such a tax could also address what they see as a gap in the taxation of large foreign technology companies that earn revenue from EU users without necessarily having a physical presence in the countries where that revenue is generated.

"Large foreign digital corporations can currently generate substantial revenues from processing user data without having to pay tax on those revenues in the EU countries concerned, as they do not have a physical presence there. A digital tax would change this," Schütz said.

The study also examined a minimum tax on individuals with net wealth above €100mn, which it estimated could generate up to €40bn a year for the EU budget.

Other possible sources included taxes on crypto-assets and online gambling, as well as a bank levy, alternative forms of corporate taxation and a carbon-based tax on air tickets.

The Commission has already proposed several new own resources, including revenues from the EU emissions trading system and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, alongside a levy on uncollected electronic waste and a tobacco tax.

The wiiw researchers said the debate should extend beyond simply finding enough money to cover the EU's spending plans, arguing that decisions on revenue sources would also determine how the costs of common priorities were distributed.

They also called for common EU borrowing to remain part of the discussion, pointing to the experience of the €800-billion NextGenerationEU recovery programme launched after the COVID-19 pandemic.

"A stronger and more independent financing base, complemented by common borrowing for strategic investment, could substantially strengthen the EU’s capacity to act, including in its competition with China and the United States," Heimberger said.

 

Croatian startup maps 4.3mn vineyards as climate change reshapes wine regions

Changing climate conditions are affecting the world's wine-growing regions. / Image by Jill Wellington from PixabayFacebook

TwitterLinkedInTelegramFlipboardFeedly

By IntelliNews October 7, 2026

A Croatian company has launched a digital database mapping more than 4.3mn vineyards and 104,000 wineries in 90 countries, combining satellite terrain measurements with climate data to track how changing conditions are affecting the world's wine-growing regions.

WorldWineryMap.com, developed by Umag-based World Winery Map, maps 4,303,693 vineyard parcels and provides data including elevation, slope, solar radiation, soil composition and temperatures during the vine-growing season.

"For each parcel, we extracted the exact coordinates and calculated the elevation, slope, and aspect using the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model, then layered climate data on top of that," said founder Matija Gavrilovic.

The company said it assembled vineyard data from 38 sources, including 22 official government registers covering more than 3.8mn of the mapped plots. Other data comes from agricultural censuses, satellite analysis and unofficial sources.

The platform identifies 98,719 wine-growing boundaries, including 2,815 official wine regions, subregions and appellations and 95,904 named vineyard sites.

It also incorporates climate indicators such as the Huglin and Winkler indices, rainfall and average growing-season temperatures, allowing users to compare conditions between wine-producing areas.

"Building a system of this magnitude required processing more than four million geospatial polygons and precisely intersecting them with topographical and climate layers," Gavrilovic said. "The result is the most comprehensive digital archive of world viticulture ever created."

The company said the platform uses legal boundaries and official nomenclature where available, including French INAO delimitations and US American Viticultural Area borders.

The map is aimed at wine professionals and travellers, with a geolocation function allowing users to find nearby wineries and obtain directions.

PRAGMATISM

Four in ten Ukrainians now see a frozen front line as the most realistic end to the war

Some 41% of Ukrainians now see a freeze with territorial losses as the most realistic end to the war, up from 33% in February 2025. / bne IntelliNews 

Facebook

TwitterLinkedInTelegramFlipboardFeedly

By Ben Aris in Berlin October 7, 2026

Some 41% of Ukrainians now consider a settlement in which Ukraine keeps its statehood and independence but suffers forced territorial losses to be the most realistic end to the war, up from 33% in February 2025, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published on October 6.

Respondents were asked to pick the scenario they thought possible in the current situation, not the one they wanted. KIIS said that, judging by its other surveys, most people who chose the territorial-loss option had in mind a "freeze" along the current front line, and stressed that the question did not concern formal recognition of the occupied territories as part of Russia.

A combined 53% chose scenarios involving the liberation of at least some territory, down from 60% in February 2025. Some 14% thought a return to the de facto borders of February 24, 2022 the most realistic outcome (16% previously), 4% the recovery of all of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (5%), 23% the restoration of the 1991 borders including Crimea (25%), and 12% full territorial integrity with the fighting carried onto Russian territory (14%). Another 6% could not say.

Belief in victory remains high but has become less certain. Some 79% said Ukraine would win the war, 47% of them definitely and 32% probably, while 7% expected Russia to win and 14% were undecided. In KIIS's late July to early August survey 85% believed Ukraine would win and 60% were certain of it.

Three-quarters of Ukrainians, 75%, would accept negotiations with Russia now to end the war, against 21% who would not, a result almost identical to February 2025. KIIS warned that the question covered only the holding of talks and should not be read as support for concessions to Moscow.

Some 69% would support an immediate and complete ceasefire along the current line of contact on condition that Ukraine does not legally recognise the occupied territories as Russian, keeps strengthening its army and continues its course towards the EU and Nato. Another 22% opposed the idea and 9% were undecided.

The conditions matter. In the July-August survey only 32% accepted a withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbas in exchange for abstract US and European security guarantees, while 60% rejected it; when the scenario was a freeze on the current line backed by concrete guarantees in the form of more weapons and financial support, 59% approved. In May, 61% rejected a ceasefire on the current line without security guarantees, KIIS said.

Ukrainians' stated stamina has not changed. Some 62% said they were prepared to endure the war for as long as necessary, 4% for about a year and 23% for a few months to half a year, figures practically unchanged from late July and early August. In Kyiv the share ready to hold out as long as needed was 72%, against 69% in the previous survey, despite the start of Russia's jet-powered drone attacks on the capital.

KIIS noted that the fieldwork took place after the jet-drone campaign against civilian infrastructure had begun, but ended before the strikes on the bridges across the Dnipro.

"Ukrainians maintain a constructive approach and are open to difficult compromises," KIIS executive director Anton Hrushetskyi said. "However, these compromises should not be unilateral concessions and something that would resemble Ukraine's capitulation."

The poll is the second set of results from the same wave. Questions on corruption from the September survey found that graft worries Ukrainians more than Russia's missile strikes, and on October 5 KIIS reported that 53% think President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should not seek a second term.

KIIS interviewed 1,002 adults living in government-controlled territory by telephone between September 12 and 21, for the NGO Forum. The survey excluded residents of occupied areas and Ukrainians who left the country after February 24, 2022. The formal margin of error is up to 4.1 percentage points, and KIIS warned that wartime conditions add some systematic bias. The results were also reported by the Kyiv Post.

Which of these scenarios for the end of the war is the most realistic in your opinion? Not the one you would like, but the one that is possible in the current situation?	Feb.25	Sep.26
The very fact of preserving Ukraine's statehood and independence, even with forced territorial losses	33	41
Return of the actual borders of Ukraine as of the beginning of the invasion on February 24, 2022	16	14
Restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including the return of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in full	5	4
Full restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including the return of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as Crimea	25	23
Full restoration of territorial integrity and transfer of hostilities to the territory of Russia	14	12
Hard to say	7	6
Source: KIIS

 

Missile War Monitor: Pryluky toll rises to 22 as fire is reported at Russian plant housing Yandex's largest data centre

Ukraine's interior minister put the toll from Russia's October 7 missile attack at 28 killed, while overnight a large fire was reported at a plant in Russia's Ryazan region that houses Yandex's largest data centre. / IntelliNewsFacebook

TwitterLinkedInTelegram

By Ben Aris in Berlin October 8, 2026

The death toll from Russia's missile strike on an apartment block in Pryluky rose to 22, including five children, the State Emergency Service said on October 8, Glavnoe reported.

Ukraine's Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivsky put the toll from the October 7 attack at 28 killed across Pryluky, Kremenchuk, Oleksandriia and Kyiv late that evening, Ukrinform reported, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had given 25 killed and 100 injured, according to an earlier Ukrinform report.

Ukraine's Air Force said 39 of 48 cruise missiles, five ballistic missiles and 117 of 130 drones were shot down or suppressed in the attack, with hits at 18 locations, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Zelenskiy said Russia used 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, and that infrastructure in Kyiv and 12 regions was hit, Ukrinform said.

Inside Russia, a large fire broke out overnight at the Sasta machine-tool plant in Sasovo in the Ryazan region, which houses what Yandex calls its largest data centre, and Yandex Cloud reported power-supply problems in one of its availability zones, the Kyiv Independent reported. Neither the regional authorities nor Ukraine's military had confirmed a strike.

A fire was also reported near Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat's refinery and petrochemical complex in Bashkortostan, UNIAN reported, citing open-source monitors. Neither Russia's defence ministry nor Ukraine's Air Force had published a tally for the night of October 7-8 at the time of writing, and much of the Russian side of last night is not yet reported.

Refinery strikes

Bashkortostan: a fire was reported a few kilometres from Salavat on the night of October 7-8, possibly at or near Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat's refinery and petrochemical complex, according to reader videos and the open-source monitors ASTRA and Exilenova+, as cited by UNIAN. Ufa airport suspended flights overnight, the aviation authority Rosaviatsia said, Interfax reported. Neither the regional authorities nor the company had commented at the time of writing, and IntelliNews' refinery ledger does not count it as a strike. The refinery has been recorded as halted since an attack on August 13, with no restart reported.

Volgograd region: Lukoil's Volgograd refinery remains halted after the October 2 drone attack, as Reuters reported on October 6, citing industry sources, according to Meduza in English. No restart has been reported and Lukoil has not commented.

Nationwide: no other strike, halt or restart at a Russian refinery was confirmed for October 7 or the night of October 7-8 at the time of writing. Plants reported halted or cut so far in October account for about 14.8mn tonnes a year, or 5% of Russia's 327mn tonnes nameplate capacity, by IntelliNews' refinery ledger, and up to 162.9mn tonnes, or 50%, if halts reported earlier still hold. The equivalent figure for September was 121.6mn tonnes, or 37%. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in early September that about 10% of Russian refining capacity was under repair.

Metal plants hit

No strike on a named Ukrainian steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy, pipe or non-ferrous plant was reported for October 7 or the night of October 7-8 at the time of writing. In Russia, drones damaged a substation at Severstal's Yakovlevsky iron ore mine in the Belgorod region on October 7; see below.

Oil depots, factories and military targets in Russia

Ryazan region: a large fire broke out overnight on October 8 at the Sasta machine-tool plant in Sasovo, on whose grounds stands Yandex DC Sasovo, which Yandex describes as its largest data centre, the Kyiv Independent reported. The open-source groups ASTRA and Exilenova+ identified the site. Yandex Cloud acknowledged an "incident" and power-supply problems in its ru-central1-b availability zone from about 01:31 but did not give a cause or link it to a drone attack. Sasta, which makes metalworking machines, has been under UK sanctions since 2024. It is unclear whether the plant, the data centre or both were the target, and neither the regional authorities nor Ukraine's military had confirmed a strike at the time of writing.

Samara region: a large fire broke out on the evening of October 7 at an oil pipeline pumping station and tank farm near Prosvet, shown in social-media footage and in NASA FIRMS satellite fire data, the Kyiv Independent reported. No official cause was given. Ukraine's General Staff said separately that its October 2 strike in the region had damaged 11 RVS-20000 and three RVS-50000 oil storage tanks, along with pipeline sections and an automated station, Ukrinform reported.

Belgorod region: drones attacked Severstal's Yakovlevsky iron ore mine at 18:20 on October 7 and damaged a substation, the steelmaker said on Telegram, adding that all mine staff were brought to the surface and nobody was hurt, Interfax reported.

Rostov region: more than 30 drones were destroyed or suppressed overnight over the city of Kamensk and the Kamensky, Millerovsky, Neklinovsky, Chertkovsky and Sholokhovsky districts, Governor Yuri Slyusar said, Interfax reported. He said there was no information yet on casualties or damage.

Krasnodar: the city administration said a drone attack was being repelled overnight and air-traffic restrictions were imposed at the city's Pashkovsky airport, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported. No damage or casualties were reported.

Black Sea: UPDATE, October 6: the fire on the tanker attacked by unmanned boats off Sochi was put out on October 7, The Moscow Times reported. The Moscow Times names the Liberian-flagged vessel Rio and the Kyiv Independent calls it Rea. Russian officials have not said who launched the boats.

Nationwide: Zelenskiy said on October 7 that Ukrainian forces had hit two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions over the previous day, without naming the facilities, Ukrinform reported. The General Staff said it struck Seshcha airfield in the Bryansk region, an electronic-warfare station near Hryniove and a radar near Elionka, with damage being assessed, Ukrinform said.

Nationwide: the Russian defence ministry claimed 311 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over 16 regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov Seas on the night of October 6-7, TASS reported, and 59 between 08:00 and 20:00 Moscow time on October 7, Interfax said. Its overnight figure for October 7-8 had not been published at the time of writing.

Ukraine under fire

Chernihiv region: UPDATE, October 7: rescuers searched the rubble of the five-storey block in Pryluky through the night, and by the morning of October 8 the State Emergency Service counted 22 dead, including five children, 54 injured, including seven children, and 15 people rescued. Vyhivsky had given 20 dead, including five children, on the evening of October 7. An unexploded Russian missile warhead was found near Pryluky, Ukrinform reported.

Kyiv: UPDATE, October 7: an evening attack killed two people and injured 13 in the Obolonskyi and Solomianskyi districts, and 12 people were rescued from a burning five-storey block, the State Emergency Service and city prosecutors said, Ukrinform reported. Later that evening a drone hit the tenth floor of a 12-storey apartment block in the Desnianskyi district, where two bodies were found in one flat, four people were injured, including two children, and 22 were rescued, the State Emergency Service said, UNIAN reported. It is not clear whether these deaths are included in the national toll of 28.

Damage to the networks led grid company DTEK to impose emergency power cuts in Kyiv and the Kyiv region on Ukrenergo's orders on the evening of October 7, cutting part of the power to water pumping stations and water supply to the Right Bank and halting electric transport there, before hourly schedules were restored at 21:13, TSN reported. Explosions were heard in Kyiv, Fastiv and Lutsk at about 04:00 on October 8, and guided bombs hit Zaporizhzhia at about 03:00, Telegraf reported, citing monitoring channels. No official damage report had been published at the time of writing.

Kyiv region: a Russian missile seriously damaged production and warehouse buildings at the Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill in Obukhiv on October 7, starting fires and halting production, the company said, adding that no employees were hurt and that it was the third missile attack on the mill in six months, Ukrinform reported. A logistics centre caught fire in the Fastiv district that evening, according to TSN.

Poltava region: UPDATE, October 7: the toll in Kremenchuk rose to two killed and 47 injured, with four high-rise blocks and a community centre damaged, the regional prosecutor's office and regional head Vitalii Diakivnych said, Ukrinform reported.

Nationwide: some consumers in the Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, Kherson, Poltava and Chernihiv regions lost power after shelling on October 7, the energy ministry said, Censor.net reported. Ukrenergo said hourly outage schedules and limits on industrial consumers would apply in some regions on October 8 because of Russian attacks on energy facilities, Ukrinform reported.

Dnipropetrovsk region: an FPV drone hit the entrance to a DTEK site in a frontline district on October 7, without injuries, the ninth attack on the site since early September, the company said, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

Russian claim: Russia's defence ministry said its October 7 strike hit sites working for Fire Point that make and store Flamingo cruise missiles and medium- and long-range drones in Kyiv and the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv regions, as well as port and ship-repair infrastructure in the Odesa region, M24 reported. Ukraine has not confirmed hits on those sites.

Data centres, telecoms, media and R&D

Kyiv: the three-pavilion building of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio was damaged in the missile attack early on October 7, with no reports of fatalities, the studio said on Facebook, Ukrinform reported. A Russian attack on the studio on June 15 destroyed what was Ukraine's largest and oldest costume collection.

Nationwide: no other strike on a Ukrainian data centre, telecoms operator, broadcaster or research site was reported for October 7 or the night of October 7-8 at the time of writing.

Weapons and technology

EU: the European Commission paid out €1.24bn of defence support from the €90bn loan to Ukraine, for drones, drone interceptors, drone ammunition and missiles made by Ukrainian companies, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on October 7, the Kyiv Independent reported. EU ambassadors approved a 22nd sanctions package aimed at Russia's defence industry, adding about 1,700 items centred on missile programmes and electronic components, Ukraine's sanctions envoy Vladyslav Vlasiuk said, Militarnyi reported. No EU confirmation was found; formal adoption is expected by mid-October, he said.

Ukraine: the defence ministry codified Phantom Defense's Blade interceptor drone for military procurement; the manufacturer gives a speed of 310 km/h, a range of up to 30 km and a payload of up to 0.5 kg, Militarnyi reported. The 156th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment is pairing a Kub launcher with a Buk radar to shoot down jet-powered Shaheds and has hit about 20 aerial targets this way, its personnel told Militarnyi in a report.

US: the Pentagon's Drone Dominance programme ordered a further 1,320 F10 FPV drones from Ukraine's F-Drones for delivery by the end of November, the company said, Militarnyi reported.

Bulgaria: the government plans to buy five more IRIS-T air defence systems, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said, adding: "I hope that the agreement will be concluded within a few weeks," Militarnyi reported.

Arson and sabotage in the EU and the UK

Denmark: the security service PET said Russia has carried out sabotage operations against Danish companies supplying defence products to Ukraine, calling it an escalation from planning in the spring to much more execution in early summer, and said recruits included homeless people and drug users found via Telegram, Reuters reported on October 7, as relayed by Militarnyi in English. PET did not name specific incidents.

Bulgaria: UPDATE, October 6: the search for the crew of the Alfa Watan, sunk by drones in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, was called off, The Sofia Globe reported. Radev has said Bulgaria could not yet reliably determine where the drones were launched from; Zelenskiy said Ukraine had no operations in the area and called it a combined Russian attack. Bulgaria has not attributed the attack.

Lithuania: the army will help border guards on the border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave as "a preventive measure", Interior Minister Martynas Katelynas said on October 7, citing the incident on the Latvian-Belarusian border and reports that Russia could announce a mobilisation, LRT reported.

Tit for tat

The toll from Russia's October 7 barrage rose overnight to 28, according to the interior minister, while the emergency service counted 22 dead in a single Pryluky apartment block. Moscow said the strike was aimed at the plants building Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles; Kyiv's claimed hits for the same day were oil facilities in Perm, Samara and Astrakhan. Overnight, fires were reported at a Ryazan region plant housing Yandex's largest data centre and near the Salavat refinery, though neither had been confirmed as a strike, and both sides' tallies for last night were still to come at the time of writing.

The ledgers

The running ledgers are kept as six public spreadsheets at permanent addresses. The first three are non-exhaustive, every row is sourced, and where only one side has spoken the row says so. Defence ministry figures are recorded as claims, and in the sabotage ledger attribution is given exactly as the authorities state it and no further. The fourth tracks what has happened to Ukraine's steel, iron ore, coke, ferroalloy and non-ferrous plants since 2021, grouped by owner. The fifth tracks strikes on data centres, telecoms, media and research sites; the sixth tracks refinery strikes.

RUSSIA STRIKES LEDGER: Russian strikes on Ukraine's economic infrastructure, 382 rows

UKRAINE STRIKES LEDGER: Ukrainian strikes on economic infrastructure in Russia and occupied territory, 230 rows

ARSON & SABOTAGE LEDGER: Arson, sabotage and drone incursions in the EU and the UK, 75 rows

METAL STRIKES LEDGER: Ukraine's metals and mining assets: 2021 baseline against status in September 2026, 38 plants and mines

DATA CENTRE & TELECOM STRIKES LEDGER: Data centres, telecoms, media and research sites hit in Ukraine, 37 rows

REFINERY STRIKES LEDGER: Russian oil refineries hit, and how badly, 27 refineries

Refinery	Region	Capacity (mn t/yr)	Strikes	Latest hit	Worst damage (0-4)	Status now
Ryazan	Ryazan region	17.1	15	September 6, 2026	4	Halted (September 10, 2026)
Moscow (Kapotnya)	Moscow	12	5	September 20, 2026	4	Halted (September 22, 2026)
Kirishi (KINEF)	Leningrad region	20.1	8	August 30, 2026	4	Halted (September 15, 2026)
Yaroslavl (Slavneft-YANOS)	Yaroslavl region	15	15	September 17, 2026	4	Halted (September 17, 2026)
Nizhny Novgorod (Lukoil NORSI, Kstovo)	Nizhny Novgorod region	17	10	August 26, 2026	4	Partly operating (~25%) (September 15, 2026)
Volgograd	Volgograd region	14.8	12	October 2, 2026	4	Halted (October 6, 2026)
Saratov	Saratov region	7	10	September 11, 2026	4	Halted (September 16, 2026)
Syzran	Samara region	8.5	10	September 15, 2026	4	Halted (September 16, 2026)
Novokuibyshevsk	Samara region	8.3	7	August 22, 2026	4	Unknown after 22 Aug 2026 fire (August 22, 2026)
Kuibyshev (Samara)	Samara region	7	6	September 23, 2026	4	Unknown after 22 Sep 2026 strike (September 23, 2026)
Tuapse	Krasnodar region	12	11	May 27, 2026	4	Halted (no restart reported) (April 21, 2026)
Afipsky	Krasnodar region	6.2	15	August 25, 2026	1	No halt reported (August 27, 2026)
Ilsky	Krasnodar region	6.6	14	September 26, 2026	3	Halt claimed by Ukraine's Fire Point, not confirmed (September 26, 2026)
Slavyansk ECO	Krasnodar region	5.2	9	September 13, 2026	4	No halt reported after 13 Sep 2026 (September 17, 2026)
Krasnodar	Krasnodar region	3	2	August 30, 2025	1	No halt reported (August 30, 2025)
Novoshakhtinsk	Rostov region	5	7	September 25, 2026	4	Halted (temporarily suspended) (September 25, 2026)
Ufa group (Bashneft: Ufaneftekhim, Novoil, UNPZ)	Bashkortostan	23.4	15	September 23, 2026	2	Operating, units under repair (September 22, 2026)
Salavat	Bashkortostan	10	5	August 13, 2026	4	Halted (no restart reported) (August 14, 2026)
Nizhnekamsk (TANECO)	Tatarstan	16	7	September 13, 2026	4	Unclear / partly operating (September 18, 2026)
Nizhnekamsk (TAIF-NK)	Tatarstan	7.3	1	July 8, 2026	0	Operating (July 27, 2026)
Perm (Lukoil)	Perm region	13.1	6	September 25, 2026	4	Halted (September 25, 2026)
Orsk	Orenburg region	6.6	4	August 11, 2026	4	Halted (repairs up to six months) (August 13, 2026)
Omsk	Omsk region	21	1	July 6, 2026	4	Unclear (restarted late July; later reported stopped) (September 15, 2026)
Tyumen (Antipinsky)	Tyumen region	9	3	July 25, 2026	4	Halted (no restart reported) (July 28, 2026)
Ukhta (Lukoil)	Komi Republic	4.2	2	February 12, 2026	1	Unknown (February 12, 2026)
Pervyi Zavod (Kaluga mini-refinery)	Kaluga region	1.2	2	May 10, 2024	1	Operating (November 19, 2025)
Nevsky Mazut (St Petersburg)	St Petersburg		1	January 31, 2024	1	Unknown (January 31, 2024)

Russian oil refineries hit by Ukrainian strikes, as of October 8, 2026. Non-exhaustive; strike counts are floors. Damage: 0 claimed, no damage confirmed; 1 fire or minor damage; 2 secondary unit damaged, output reduced; 3 primary distillation unit damaged; 4 refinery halted. Plants reported halted or cut in Oct 2026 account for about 14.8 mn t/yr, about 5% of the 327 mn t/yr nameplate total; up to 162.9 mn t/yr (50%) if earlier halts still hold. Russian officials put capacity under repair at about 10% (Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, early September). Status mostly from unnamed industry sources cited by Reuters. Full sourced ledger: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AHjZvX9Hf-6jdKxcTE8Dw7f6O2_svY0kX54sqKPyU_s

This article was produced with the help of IntelliNews Lambda analytical tool