Ukraine Has Hit Three Russian Refineries Since Friday

A major oil hub in Russia’s Volga region appears to have caught fire after an attack, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing satellite images from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System. An image taken on Monday showed a relatively fresh heat anomaly, which could mean fires at the Samara crude oil pumping station, according to the imagery Bloomberg has analyzed.

The potential attack, reports of which emerged in Ukrainian media today, could be another hit at an oil asset in Russia after Ukraine resumed late last week attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure. The Novokuibyshevsk refinery, one of the leading oil refineries in the Volga region and part of the Samara Group of companies of Russia’s top oil company Rosneft, was targeted in a drone attack on Friday, in what was…