The governor of Russia's Astrakhan region told residents not to panic on Wednesday after its main city, close to a huge gas chemical complex that was attacked by Ukrainian drones this week, was enveloped in a cloud of natural gas.

Astrakhan gas processing plant shut down due to drone strike. The authorities deny the reports of an environmental disaster, the governor of the Astrakhan region of Russia, Igor Babushkin, says. He claims that “having received early warnings about the danger of the UAVs,

Ukrainian drones attacked energy facilities in Russia's Astrakhan and Volgograd oblasts overnight on Feb. 3, causing a fire, according to local authorities.