MOSCOW: Ukrainian drones attacked the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s marine terminal in southern Russia early Monday, damaging part of a mooring point and setting four oil tanks ablaze, Russia’s defense ministry said on Monday.
The Ukrainian army said it had attacked a different terminal in the port of Novorossiysk, without mentioning the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC).
The CPC pipeline — which had not commented — handles around one percent of the world’s oil supplies, as well as around 80 percent of Kazakhstan’s exports.
During the night, Ukraine “attacked facilities at the marine transshipment complex in Novorossiysk using fixed-wing attack drones,” the Russian defense ministry said in a statement on Telegram.
“As a result of the Ukrainian drone strikes, the pipeline of a single mooring point, as well as a loading and unloading terminal, were damaged, and four oil product storage tanks caught fire,” the ministry added.
