Ukrainian drones cause fire at major Russian gas processing plant, governor says


  • World
  • Sunday, 19 Oct 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukrainian drones attacked the Orenburg gas processing plant, the world's largest facility of its kind, and damaged part of it but no employees were hurt in the attack, the region's governor said on Sunday.

The governor, Yevgeny Solntsev, said on his official Telegram channel that the drone strike had caused a fire to break out at a workshop at the plant which emergency services were working to put out.

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