Ukraine claims deepest strike yet on Russian Arctic gas facilities
Ukraine says FP-1 drones reached gas-processing plants more than 3,000 kilometres inside Russia. Moscow reported a fire caused by intercepted-drone debris, with no deaths or injuries.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces says it struck gas-processing plants in Novy Urengoy and Purovsky district in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug with FP-1 drones. The sites are more than 3,000 kilometres from Ukraine, in what Ukrainian and Russian officials described as the first reported Ukrainian strike to reach the Arctic.
Russia’s regional governor, Dmitry Artyukhov, said the drones were intercepted and that falling debris caused a fire. No deaths or injuries were reported. Videos circulating on social media showed smoke and fire at the Novy Urengoy plant, but the footage and the extent of any damage have not been independently verified.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack justified. The claim follows Ukraine’s expanding use of relatively low-cost, long-range drones against Russian energy and logistics infrastructure. An earlier reported FP-1 strike reached an oil refinery in Omsk, about 2,500 kilometres from Ukraine.
The Yamalo-Nenets region is described in the supplied material as a major centre of Russian gas production, accounting for about 80 per cent of output and two-thirds of reserves. However, there is no confirmed information that the latest attack disrupted production or affected energy markets.
The strike came after United States envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visited Moscow and Kyiv with proposals to end the war. The details of those proposals were not disclosed, and attacks reportedly resumed after a temporary halt during the visit.
