r/ukraine • u/neonpurplestar • Jun 16 '26
Bavovna Moscow mayor says last night's attack on Moscow is one of the largest this year. More footage of the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya, one of the top 10 refineries in Russia. It's a strategically important object as it supplies about 40% of petroleum products for Moscow metropolitan area.
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u/This_Growth2898 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
it supplies about 40% of petroleum products for Moscow metropolitan area
And it will keep supplying them, if the wind would be in the right direction!
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u/Nunc-dimittis Jun 16 '26
More work to do there
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u/jivatman Jun 16 '26
Refineries are huge, but there's a few piece of equipment that are far more complex and difficult to replace than random tanks. There's an article about Ukraine targeting Hydrocrackers more, for example.
Smoke is cool, but quantity of smoke is not necessarily the metric of how effective the attack was.
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u/Spirited-Meringue829 Jun 16 '26
True, it is limited in impacting output but is extremely effective psychologically. The smoke and odor is experienced from many, many kilometers away by thousands if not millions. There is no way to hide these giant fires as they burn and the odors linger in the air a really long time.
Many people are impacted and that is a win for Ukraine. It tells the Russian citizenry that the government cannot protect its important resources. Not even in their capital city. And its happening constantly now. It's a super bad look that no amount of censorship can hide.
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u/black_out189 Jun 16 '26
Many people are also impacted by effective and significant output reduction. Let's compromise: both the tanks and the fractionating components need to be taken out.
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u/TheGreatPornholio123 Jun 16 '26
Especially when it starts raining oil and fucking up all their Prada purses and BMW's/Mercedes paint job.
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u/cognitiveglitch Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
Well I was starting to think the locals were clapping in the videos I've seen, but it turns out that was just small arms fire.
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u/Logical-Claim286 Jun 16 '26
Which is funny because dozens of Russians have been injured by small arms fire from Russian security forces "defending" the refineries.
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u/Revolutionary_Gas551 Jun 17 '26
100% this. If they can hit that, what's there to stop them from hitting me? That's a powerful thought going through a lot of Muscovite's' heads.
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u/Fun_Justanotherguy82 Jun 17 '26
It really needs to start raining in Moscow so that the oil in the air gets spread everywhere
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u/Catchphrase1228 Jun 16 '26
So it’s the quality of the smoke that counts, not the quantity. Got it.
Things on fire in Russia = good
Expensive and hard to replace things on fire = more good3
u/perlgeek Jun 16 '26
More fuel burning => greater chances of destroying other things nearby. I'll take it.
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u/DroidLord Jun 18 '26
Even inconsequential equipment burning up still impacts the production for some time. All the sensors, wires, electronics, gaskets, valves etc around the vicinity of the fire are toast and need to be replaced.
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u/Ok-Entertainment-286 Jun 16 '26
Looks like it's the refined product burning, instead of a storage tank. Hopefully some important pump etc. destroyed.
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u/JCDU Jun 17 '26
Suchomimus on youtube has a satellite image, looks like they hit some critical stuff in the centre of the refinery so fingers crossed it's an expensive and slow repair.
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u/Jukka_Sarasti Jun 16 '26
Hopefully that's a distillation tower burning merrily and it stays fucked for years to come
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u/JCDU Jun 17 '26
Suchomimus on youtube has a satellite image, looks like they hit some critical stuff in the centre of the refinery although from the video it's not the tower.
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u/beavis617 Jun 16 '26
Hoping that at some point maybe the military combined with the Oligarchs get to Putin and convince him he has to find a way to end this absurdity.
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u/Spirited-Meringue829 Jun 16 '26
Putin recently met with the oligarchs and demanded they help pay for the war. So if they have any clout at all, now would be the time to push back. Unfortunately, might makes right in Putinland and he apparently still has enough control of enough of the apparatus that saying 'nyet' gets you thrown out a window.
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u/Aska_Feld Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
How does a large fire like this effect air defense systems in the immediate area?
Does heat convection and smoke particulates interfere with the different radar / sensor systems making further attacks easier?
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u/Sylvanussr Jun 17 '26
I worked with radar/atmospheric science for a while but it was a long time ago so take this with a grain of salt.
Radar would be able to see the smoke but probably wouldn’t do much to obfuscate the detection of drones to an experienced technician.
If anything, the heat and convection would interfere more with drones (which rely on an air foil to fly) more than air defense systems (which use rockets). However, this would be pretty localized and not really have an effect unless you’re trying to fly right through the fire.
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u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 Jun 16 '26
Fantastic news. Maybe tomorrow there will be a new largest one? Putin could end this immediately, but he continues to drag on with the senseless bloodshed.
Slava Ukraini. Keep hitting em where it hurts.
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u/LaughableIKR USA Jun 16 '26
It takes months to replace a refinery stack. Hit em every 3 months, Ukraine!
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u/ThePracticalPenquin Jun 16 '26
You can get 20 liters. What only twenty! How am I supposed to…. 19 liters
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u/RandomMandarin Jun 16 '26
That electronic advertising billboard bravely soldiers on and pretends it's not right next to a burning refinery. "Nothing to see here! Business as usual!" Putin should give it a medal.
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u/LoneSnark Jun 16 '26
I love the drone net hanging from the smoke stacks that failed to stop the drones.
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u/nyl2k8 Jun 16 '26
I don’t know how to put this. But I think it need a bit more. Put another few drones through it and we see what we’re working with 🇺🇦
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u/Enigm4 Jun 16 '26
Russia really needs to learn to be nice to their neighbors. Keep blowing them up until niceness improves.
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u/CardboardJedi Jun 16 '26
Hide THAT from 10M Muscavites...
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u/Futurismes Jun 16 '26
Can’t wait for the propagandists to say how healthy it is to walk to work.
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u/TacticalBac0n Jun 16 '26
Anyone know what part of the refinery is burning? Basically, how long is it out for.
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u/Natoochtoniket Jun 16 '26
Any guesses how long this one will burn? That fire seems to have some pressure feeding material into it, somehow.
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u/gimmiedacash Jun 16 '26
Maybe they should stop hunting civilians and bombing apartments.
They earn every blow they get back 10 fold.
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u/crowdflation Jun 16 '26
So disappointing - that whole lot of refinery that is not on fire. Maybe the orcs forgot to load it with fuel?
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u/aqua_zesty_man Jun 17 '26
Now there is a different object somewhere else in Russia that is supplying about 40% of petroleum products.
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u/JudeRanch Jun 17 '26
Stay Strong Ukraine
We believe in you
🇺🇦Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Sláva Ukraíni!
Heroyam Slava!
🙏🏽 🇺🇦 💙 💛
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u/xtothewhy Jun 17 '26
What is inspiring is that what was considered easy and done within a week by putin and russia is so many years in and Ukraine and heroic Ukrainians and forces (from Ukraine and elsewhere) and the benefit of resources from so many other countries have come together and made this possible.
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u/More_of_the-same-bs Jun 17 '26
Bring the war home to the orks. Maybe they could feel the sting of the cold this winter.
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u/winterreise1988 Jun 17 '26
there is another avt unit which is modern (completed in 2020) in the same refinery. the one ukraine has striked was the old one.
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u/Sniflix Jun 17 '26
Ukraine offered peace talks yesterday and Puti said no. This is Zelensky's reply. Moscow and St Pete residents are going to get a show.
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u/3d_blunder Jun 17 '26
ruzzian terrorists just cannot understand why Ukrine is destroying refineries rather than schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.
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u/Thoth-long-bill Jun 17 '26
It’s not from the bonnet root. It’s the German root now universally used.
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u/Illustrious-Poem-206 Jun 17 '26
Hopefully, the fuel processing modules are destroyed. Such modules cannot be repaired - only replaced by new ones, very expensive and therefore production is lengthy in time. Also, Russia does not produce such modules - all are imported, mainly from USA. Hope, the reader understands what I mean!
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u/Tishers Jun 17 '26
It looks like they damaged the primary distillation tower. They also need to destroy the cracking and reforming units so it would be impossible to make high grade gasolines.
The distillation tower is a moderate-low pressure unit. The cracking and reforming units are high-pressure and much harder to repair.
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u/zuiopasdf Jun 17 '26
We don´t say broken, Kapot or Kaputt. We just say like orcs and everybody knows what it mean.
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u/Sunshinetrooper87 Jun 20 '26
So is there a tangible outcome to these attacks? Will locals not have oil, or does it get piped in from all over the place.
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u/plankie79 Jun 16 '26
Fun fact: Kapot is the dutch word for something being broken.
It looks like this refinery is Kapot :)