Ukrainian drones strike Russian gas facility over 3k km away in Siberia
20 days ago
- Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck a natural gas facility in Novy Urengoy, Siberia, over 3,200 km from Ukraine's border, marking the deepest Ukrainian strike in the war.
- The target was the Novy Urengoy Gas Condensate Treatment Plant, which processes 19.5 million tons of crude oil and gas annually and supplies fuel to Russia's military.
- The strike used the FP-1 drone model produced by Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point; fires and smoke were visible in footage, and the governor of Yamalo-Nenets confirmed the attack.
- The facility is located 600 km from the Yamal LNG project, a major Russian LNG export site; sanctions campaigners urged the EU to sanction tankers servicing Yamal LNG.
- This attack demonstrates Ukraine's increasing long-range UAV capability, following previous strikes on Omsk and Perm Oblast.