Kiv has targeted Russia’s energy infrastructure throughout the three-year conflict, seeking to hit sites its says supply fuel to Moscow’s army or helps provide funds to support its offensive. In the latest attack overnight, seven explosive-packed drones hit a pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium which carries Kazakh oil across southern Russia for export via the Black Sea, including to western Europe. “Oil transportation through the Tengiz-Novorossiysk pipeline system is carried out at reduced pumping modes,” it said on social media. The 930-mile pipeline is owned by a consortium in which the Russian and Kazakh governments as well as Western energy majors Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell hold stakes. In 2024, the pipeline loaded more than 63 million tons of oil onto tankers at a terminal at the southern Russian port of Novorossiysk, the company said. The company said the attack hit the Kropotkinskaya pumping station – the pipeline’s largest in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region.
NN: ouch that had to hurt