Drone strikes Yaroslavl refinery in Russia, gasoline scarce at one station in two

As reported this morning, the energy truce proposed by Trump on September 14 had already collapsed within forty-eight hours. On the night between September 16 and 17, 2026, a new development emerges on the same front: according to the governor of the Yaroslavl region, cited by Deutsche Welle in Ukrainian, an attack by Ukrainian drones damaged a refinery in the territory under his administration.

Governor Mikhail Evraev reported that the fire that had broken out at the plant had by then been put out; in the surrounding area, shattered windows were reported in some apartment buildings, along with damage to several cars. The refinery hit, Slavneft-Yanos, has a stated capacity of around 15 million tonnes of processed oil per year.

Completing the picture, a separate analysis by Novaya Gazeta Europa was published today, based on data from the gdebenzin service: as of September 15, AI-92 gasoline was unavailable at 45% of the Russian gas stations monitored, and AI-95 at 53%. The same outlet counts 23 successful Ukrainian attacks against Russian refineries in August 2026 alone.

The two elements — the Yaroslavl attack and the picture on fuel availability — come from separate sources and concern different levels: the first is a specific military episode attributed to Russian regional authorities, the second is a market analysis built on data collected by a monitoring service. Neither source directly confirms the other, but together they point in the same direction: the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil infrastructure, underway for weeks, continues to affect fuel availability inside Russia.

On the basis of these excerpts, it is not possible to establish a direct, quantified link between the single Yaroslavl attack and the percentage of stations without gasoline recorded ten days earlier. What remains, therefore, are two distinct facts read within the same context, not a single confirmed causal sequence.