The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that on the night of October 9, defense forces struck the Korobkovsky gas processing plant and the dispatch station «Yefimovka» in the Volgograd region of Russia. This was reported on Facebook.
The Korobkovsky gas processing plant in Kotovo is one of the largest facilities for the primary processing of natural gas in southern Russia, with a designed capacity of 450 million cubic meters of natural and associated gas per year, as well as 186 thousand tons of light hydrocarbons annually.
The dispatch station "Yefimovka" services several main pipelines for transporting oil and oil products in the region, with a throughput capacity of 50 million tons per year.
Explosions and fires have been recorded at both sites, and information on the consequences is being clarified.