Russian Strikes Kill 11 as Ukraine Hits Arctic Gas Plants — SkimNews
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- Russian forces killed at least 11 people across Ukraine overnight, with strikes hitting Mykolaiv (4 dead, 19 wounded), a Sumy shopping centre struck by a jet-powered drone (3 dead including children, 14 wounded), a Dnipro sunflower oil facility (2 dead, 5 wounded), and a civilian tugboat off Odesa that killed two Azerbaijani crew members.
- Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the Russian strike on the Dnipro sunflower oil facility 'part of Moscow's systematic terror campaign against American businesses and economic interests.'
- Ukraine's Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi warned Russian attacks on businesses and civilian infrastructure are 'growing rapidly' and announced additional support measures, as Ukraine struggles to repel strikes amid a shortage of air defence systems.
- Ukraine's Special Operations Forces confirmed striking two gas plants — Novy Urengoy and Purovsky — in Russia's Yamal-Nenets Arctic region roughly 2,800 to 3,000 km from the Ukrainian border, calling it the deepest strike of the full-scale war.
- Kremlin envoy Artem Zhoga acknowledged the Arctic strike was the first ever to hit that part of the Yamal-Nenets region; Russian governor Dmitry Artyukhov said the attack was repelled and falling debris sparked a fire with no deaths or injuries.
- The Novy Urengoy and Purovsky plants process condensate from Yamal gas fields in a zone previously considered a 'safe rear zone for the aggressor,' with the region's gas resources estimated at 26.5 trillion cubic metres as of 2020.
Why it matters: The Arctic strike — acknowledged by Moscow's own envoy as a first — hit gas plants previously considered a 'safe rear zone,' processing condensate from fields estimated at 26.5 trillion cubic metres. Meanwhile, Russian strikes killing civilians in Mykolaiv, Sumy, and Dnipro expose the air defence gap Ukraine itself has publicly flagged.
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