A strong natural gas odor spread across the southern Russian city of Astrakhan following a drone strike on a gas processing facility earlier in the week, local authorities and media reported Wednesday.

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,

Overnight into Monday, February 3, in russia, UAVs hit one of the key combined units of the Astrakhan gas processing plant. This is one of the key energy