The attack on the Samara region began shortly after midnight; Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev reported the drone threat in a Telegram channel. In the morning, he wrote that the targets were industrial enterprises, Russian forces shot down dozens of drones, and civilian objects, including houses and cars, were damaged.
The Kuibyshev refinery of Rosneft caught fire in Samara, according to Astra's geolocation analysis. According to Reuters sources, in 2024 the plant processed 4.7 million tons of crude oil and produced 1.4 million tons of diesel fuel, 1.3 million tons of fuel oil, and 0.8 million tons of gasoline. The facility has repeatedly been targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes.
Russia's Defense Ministry said that 297 drones were launched across the country on Tuesday night. The ministry reported attacks on 13 other regions and Crimea.
Russian forces, in turn, continued strikes on Ukraine's energy facilities. On Monday they attacked two gas stations in the Zhytomyr region, and on Tuesday morning the Russian Defense Ministry reported strikes, including on fuel and energy infrastructure facilities. In the overnight strikes on Tuesday in Kyiv, four people were injured, and in the Dnipropetrovsk region three people were killed and six more were wounded.
Axios and the Financial Times reported on Sunday's phone conversation between Trump and Zelensky; according to sources from those publications, Trump repeatedly asked for strikes on Russian refineries to be stopped. After the conversation, Zelensky announced a meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week, and on Monday Trump wrote on Truth Social that Russia had lost control of its diesel industry because of the war with Ukraine.
A week ago, Trump said that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to strike energy facilities; he made that statement amid rising diesel prices in the U.S., where the average price last week exceeded $6 per gallon for the first time. Zelensky later said that Ukraine is ready to stop strikes if partners can ensure that Russia stops attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, critical infrastructure, and food transport routes, and Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Trump's appeal “a very good idea”, but said it would be effective only if strikes on Russian tankers stopped and sanctions on Russia were partially lifted.
Two senior Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times that they consider Trump's first statement about a ceasefire to be tied to U.S. domestic politics as well: in their view, the president wants to show American voters, who are unhappy with high fuel prices, that he is trying to bring them down.
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