Caspian Pipeline Consortium Workers Among Injured in Ukrainian Attack in Russia

Tass, the Russian state news agency, later reported that eight people were injured

Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring others, including two employees of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, according to Russian officials and the consortium. 

“The attack targeted the central part of the city, near the Novorossiysk hotel,” said Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of the Krasnodar Krai region in Russia. “Preliminary information reports two dead and three injured. Five residential buildings, including apartment buildings, as well as the hotel building, were damaged.”

Tass, the Russian state news agency, later reported that eight people were injured.

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which is critical to the export of oil from Kazakhstan, said its office was damaged in what it described as a “massive” attack.  

“Two company employees sustained injuries of varying severity and were transported to a medical facility. The administrative office’s work is temporarily suspended, and the staff has been evacuated,” said the consortium, also known as CPC.    

The drone strike also seriously injured people in the building who are not employees of the international crude oil transportation project, according to the CPC. 

Russia, Kazakhstan and major international oil and gas companies participate in the CPC project, which primarily delivers crude oil from western Kazakhstan as well as Russian producers to a marine terminal at Novorossiysk. There, it is loaded onto tankers for delivery to international markets. 

Ukraine has increasingly targeted Russia’s energy infrastructure with long-range drone attacks, raising concerns about the vulnerability of Kazakhstan’s oil industry to the long-running war.

Based on materials from The Times of Central Asia.

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