AFU Cut Off Financial Oxygen To One Of Russia's Largest Oil Refineries

The company stopped paying wages.

The crisis is escalating One of the largest refineries in southern Russia, which has already been attacked several times by Ukrainian drones, has stopped paying salaries.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces' attacks on enterprises in Russia that supply Russian occupation troops are effective and are weakening Putin's war machine. This is evidenced, in particular, by the situation at the Novoshakhtinsk refinery, which has already been attacked five times since the full-scale Russian invasion.

According to the Russian publick "VChK-OGPU," citing sources at the refinery, the plant has not paid workers' salaries for five months, and the latest attack, which led to a fire, has exacerbated the situation, Dialog.UA.

Salary problems are linked to delays in payments by the company's general customer, NZPN Engineering, which has not transferred money to contractors.

Workers at the refinery have appealed to Rostov Governor Yuri Slyusar, but there has been no response. The Novoshakhtinsk refinery provided 1.7% of Russia's refining capacity.

The refinery was the first major refinery built from scratch in Russia in the last 30 years. The last strike on the enterprise was carried out on the night of August 21. It led to a fire at the facility, and as of the evening of August 22, the fire had not been extinguished.

The above-mentioned refinery is by no means the only enterprise in Russia currently experiencing problems with wages. As of the end of May, the total wage arrears of large enterprises more than tripled to 1.66 billion rubles. Also, since the beginning of this year, more than 100,000 Russians have been transferred to part-time employment or sent to idle time, which indicates the growth of hidden unemployment.

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