Ukraine's drones strike Russia's gas hub 3,000 km away
Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the most long-range strike on Russia during the war – at a distance of 3,000 km. The Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the Deep Strike unit of SSO delivered the
Consensus
- Ukrainian drones conducted a long-range strike on a Russian industrial facility in Novy Urengoy.
- The attack occurred on September 9.
- The target was a gas processing plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
- A fire broke out at the facility after the drone strike.
- No casualties were reported.
- The strike was the farthest recorded by Ukraine since the start of the war.
- The facility is part of Russia's gas production infrastructure and is critical to gas condensate processing.
Points of divergence
- The strike was the deepest in the history of the war, covering over 3,000 km, and targeted both the Novo-Urengoy and Purovskiy plants. — tg_currenttime
- The strike targeted the Novo-Urengoy plant, which is part of Gazprom, with a capacity of 19.5 million tons per year, and the drones reportedly flew over 3,300 km. — tg_moscowtimes_ru
- The strike targeted the Novo-Urengoy condensate preparation plant (ZPKT), with a capacity of 19.5 M tons/year, and used FP-1 drones with a range of 2,700 km. — tg_agentstvonews
Coverage (4 sources)
- Ukrainian Armed Forces report on the most long-range strike on Russia during the war – at 3000 km — Настоящее Время
- Drones first attacked largest Russian gas extraction center 3000 km from Ukraine border — The Moscow Times
- Ukrainian Armed Forces launched the farthest strike on Russia. Drones reached the region for the first time, accounting for 80% of Russian gas production — Агентство. Новости
- Drones first attacked Russia's main oil-producing region 2500 km from the Ukrainian border — The Moscow Times
Key entities
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Ukrainian Armed Forces
- Drone
- SSO
- Novy Urengoy
- Rosaviation
- Yamale
- Special Operations Forces
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Dmitry Artukhov
- Deep Strike
- Novouryongsk