The Kremlin-controlled head of the republic, Radiy Khabirov, confirmed the attack.“Today, the Bashneft enterprise came under a terrorist attack by fixed-wing drones. One UAV was detected and tracked. Security forces opened fire with large-caliber weapons, damaging the drone, which crashed on the refinery’s territory. No casualties were reported. The facility sustained minor damage, and a fire broke out, which is being extinguished,” Khabirov said.He later added that “another UAV was shot down” and that the extent of the damage from its crash was still being assessed. Read also Trump: Major sanctions on Russia only if all NATO states stop buying its oilBashkortostan is one of the Russian regions with the highest number of casualties in the war against Ukraine.Local Telegram channel Ufa_rb published video of the fire, while the Russian channel Chestny Reportazh shared footage of the strike itself.Technical details of the strikeAccording to Ukrainian sources, the Defense Forces hit Bashneft-Novoil (Novo-Ufimsk refinery). The strike reportedly damaged a technological trestle. The OSINT project CyberBoroshno suggested that an E-300 Enterprise drone was used.Possible consequences include:disruption of crude transport between storage tanks and processing units;failure of control and automation systems;forced shutdown of part of the facility to localize the accident.Coordinates of the strike site: 54.883371, 56.077389.The refinery attack came just a day after Ukraine’s Security Service drones hit Russia’s largest oil terminal on the Baltic Sea in Primorsk on September 12, halting oil shipments.