The Orenburg gas processing plant, the world's largest facility of its kind, has been forced to halt its intake of gas from Kazakhstan following a Ukrainian drone strike, according to Kazakhstan's energy ministry.
Earlier on Sunday, Orenburg regional governor Yevgeny Solntsev reported that the plant had sustained partial damage and that the drone attack had caused a fire to erupt in one of its workshops. The fire was later extinguished, as reported by the Russian media outlet Kommersant, citing the plant's operator.
Ukraine confirmed the strike on the gas processing plant in the Orenburg region, as well as on an oil refinery in the Samara region. Since August, Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russian refineries and other energy facilities in an attempt to disrupt fuel supplies and deprive Moscow of financial resources.
The Ukrainian military reported explosions and a fire at the site.
This marks the first known attack on the plant, which is part of the Orenburg gas chemical complex.
Operated by Gazprom, the facility has an annual processing capacity of 45 billion cubic metres and handles gas condensate from both the Orenburg oil and gas field and Kazakhstan's Karachaganak field.
Kazakhstan's energy ministry stated that Gazprom had informed them of the emergency but had not yet provided further details on the damage or a timeline for resuming full operations.
No casualties were reported from the attack.
In a separate incident, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the governor of Russia's Samara region, stated on social media that air defences had been activated overnight in response to Ukrainian drones, temporarily suspending both the local airport and mobile internet services.
Ukraine had previously attempted to strike an oil refinery in the Samara region.
Russia's Defence Ministry later reported that its air defence forces had shot down 45 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 12 over the Samara region, 11 over the Saratov region, and one over the Orenburg region.
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