Russian and Kazakh authorities reported on Sunday that Ukrainian drones struck a significant gas processing plant in southern Russia, starting a fire and forcing the plant to stop receiving gas from Kazakhstan. U.S. In the meantime, in the latest of apparent reversals regarding how to pursue peace, President Donald Trump suggested that Kyiv might have to give up territory in exchange for Moscow stopping its invasion, which has been going on for more than three and a half years. One of the world’s largest facilities of its kind, the Orenburg plant is run by Gazprom, a state-owned gas giant. It is in a region with the same name near the Kazakh border. It is part of a production and processing complex with a 45 billion cubic meter annual capacity. In addition to managing Orenburg’s own oil and gas fields, it processes gas condensate from Kazakhstan’s Karachaganak field. Gov. of the region says: Yevgeny Solntsev, the drone strikes set fire to a workshop at the plant and damaged part of it. The Kazakh Energy Ministry on Sunday said, citing a notification from Gazprom, that the plant was temporarily unable to process gas originating in Kazakhstan, “due to an emergency situation following a drone attack.” In a statement released on Sunday, the General Staff of Ukraine stated that the Orenburg plant experienced a “large-scale fire” and that one of its gas processing and purification units had been damaged. Kyiv has ramped up attacks in recent months on Russian energy facilities it says both fund and directly fuel Moscow’s war effort.
Trump says Ukraine may have to give up land for peace
Trump appeared to edge back in the direction of pressing Ukraine to give up on retaking land it has lost to Russia, in exchange for an end to Moscow’s aggression.Asked in a Fox News interview conducted Thursday whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would be open to ending the war “without taking significant property from Ukraine,” Trump responded: “Well, he’s going to take something.”
“They fought and he has a lot of property. He’s won certain property,” Trump said. “We’re the only nation that goes in, wins a war and then leaves.”
Trump suggests Ukraine may have to trade land for peace with Russia
