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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian drones overnight struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a fire and forcing it to suspend its intake of gas from Kazakhstan, Russian and Kazakh authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Orenburg plant, run by state-owned gas giant Gazprom and located in a region of the same name near the Kazakh border, is part of a production and processing complex that is one of the world\u2019s largest facilities of its kind, with an annual capacity of 45 billion cubic meters. It handles gas condensate from Kazakhstan\u2019s Karachaganak field, alongside Orenburg\u2019s own oil and gas fields.<\/p>\n

According to regional Gov. Yevgeny Solntsev, the drone strikes set fire to a workshop at the plant and damaged part of it. The Kazakh energy ministry on Sunday said, citing a notification from Gazprom, that the plant is temporarily unable to process gas originating in Kazakhstan, \u201cdue to an emergency situation following a drone attack.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said in a statement Sunday that a \u201clarge-scale fire\u201d erupted at the Orenburg plant, and that one of its gas processing and purification units was damaged. <\/p>\n

Kyiv has ramped up attacks in recent months on Russian energy facilities<\/a> it says both fund and directly fuel Moscow\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukrainian prosecutors claim that Moscow is modifying its deadly aerial-guided bombs to strike civilians deeper in Ukraine. Local authorities in Kharkiv said Russia struck a residential neighborhood using a new rocket-powered aerial bomb for the first time.<\/p>\n

Kharkiv\u2019s regional prosecutor\u2019s office said in a statement late Saturday that Russia used the weapon, called the UMPB-5R, which can travel up to 130 kilometers (80 miles), in an attack on the city of Lozava on Saturday afternoon. The city lies 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Kharkiv, a considerable distance for the weapon to fly. <\/p>\n

Russia continued to strike other parts of Ukraine closer to the front line. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, at least 11 people were injured after Russian drones hit the Shakhtarske area. At least 14 five-story buildings and a store were damaged, said acting regional Gov. Vladyslav Haivanenko.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s General Staff also claimed a separate drone strike hit Russia\u2019s Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, in the Samara region near Orenburg, sparking a blaze and damaging its main refining units. <\/p>\n

The Novokuibyshevsk facility, operated by Russian gas major Rosneft, has an annual capacity of 4.9 million tons, and turns out over 20 kinds of oil-based products. Russian authorities did not immediately acknowledge the Ukrainian claim or discuss any damage. <\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said in a statement early Sunday that its air defense forces had shot down 45 Ukrainian drones during the night, including 12 over the Samara region, one over the Orenburg region and 11 over the Saratov region neighboring Samara. <\/p>\n

In turn, Ukraine\u2019s air force reported Sunday that Russia during the night launched 62 drones into Ukrainian territory. It said 40 of these were shot down, or veered off course due to electronic jamming. <\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian drones overnight struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13214,64,4216,57,32300,19548,8132,50,257,3658,3657,158978,1607,273,3660,103,107,158979],"class_list":{"0":"post-316256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-kazakhstan","13":"tag-manufacturing-sector","14":"tag-military-and-defense","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-russia-government","18":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","19":"tag-samara","20":"tag-strikes","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-ukraine-government","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-yevgeny-solntsev"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115401444786072126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}