WIRE — Ukraine continues to attack Russian refineries. Sometimes drone strikes don't have significant consequences; other times, production has to be halted for months. It's hard to assess the campaign's overall effectiveness: authorities don't disclose information about the condition of refineries, and one can only rely on indirect data. The most important of these are exchange trading in petroleum products and reports from industry sources. But Meduza gained access to another analytical tool: high-resolution thermal satellite data collected by the company Constellr. Such images can potentially reveal, for any refinery, which equipment on the plant's grounds is running and which has been shut down or taken offline for maintenance. We examined the situation at two plants for which we obtained images: the Moscow refinery in Kapotnya and the Nizhny Novgorod refinery in Kstovo. Here's what that analysis showed.
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