Ukraine strike pushes Russian refinery offline again, widening fuel crisis

Ukraine strikes hit Lukoil-Nizhegorodorgsintez (NORSI) in Kstovo, Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, causing a fire and forcing the refinery—Russia's fourth-largest and Lukoil's largest—to suspend operations; the outage accounts for about 53% of the plant’s capacity (around 17 million tons per year), adding to a wave of refinery shutdowns since June, as Kyiv says the strikes aim to reduce Russia's military and economic potential while Moscow relaxes gasoline standards to ease a domestic fuel crisis.