“The flames engulfed the condensation setting with a capacity of 3 million metric tons a year, the agency’s interlocutors said”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to them, the flames covered the condensation installation with a capacity of 3 million metric tons per year. It produces gasoline and diesel.
They said that a plant located near the Caspian Sea, about 1,675 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, can restore production only a few weeks or months. Gazprom did not respond to Reuters’ request about the comment at the time of publication.
On September 22, the governor of Astrakhan region Igor Babushkin announced the attack of Ukrainian drones on the region, the main purpose of which was an “industrial object”. He did not specify the names of the enterprise.
According to Reuters, since Monday, the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange has suspended the sale of wholesale batches of fuel from the Astrakhan plant.
The plant is also suffered a blow to drones in early February, which stopped fuel production. Sectoral sources reported to the agency that the damaged installation resumed work at the end of August.
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According to Reuters, in 2024 the plant processed 1.8 million tons of stable condensate, producing 800 thousand tons of gasoline, 600 thousand tons of diesel fuel and 300 thousand tons of fuel oil.
After starting a full -scale invasion of Russia In Ukraine Russian regions, as well as occupied Russian territory regularly They suffer shelling and attacks of drones.
The Ukrainian side emphasizes that it is working on the weakening of the rear bases of the army of the Russian Federation to reduce the offensive potential of the aggressor.
