Russia hasn't said whether the refinery itself is damaged.
That's everything we know.
Why this mattersSo why does this refinery matter?
It's not small. Kinef can process 20 million tonnes of crude oil a year. That's more than 6% of all the refined oil Russia makes.
It's owned by Surgutneftegaz. It's already under Western sanctions, including from America.
And Ukraine keeps coming back to it.
Drones hit this same refinery on 30 August this year. Before that, on 5 May, a strike knocked out three of its four crude distillation units and stopped the whole plant. One report even points to a strike in March that may have halted it too — which would make this at least the fourth hit this year, not the third, though that earlier one hasn't been confirmed elsewhere.
But here's the bigger question this strike answers.
Donald Trump announced a pause on energy strikes between Russia and Ukraine around 31 October, brokered by his envoy Jared Kushner. Senior Ukrainian figures have told the Kyiv Independent that Kyiv never agreed to it. There was a roughly 72-hour pause in October — but Ukraine says it called that off once it decided Russia wasn't holding to it either.
So this is Ukraine's answer. There was no ceasefire to break.
And it just went straight back to the one refinery it has hit again and again, 800 kilometres inside Russia.
What we don't know yet: how badly the plant is damaged this time, whether it's stopped processing again, and how long repairs would take. Russia hasn't commented on the damage. No one has reported any deaths or injuries.
