00:00Ukraine has carried out one of its deepest drone strikes of the war.
00:03The target was Russia's Orenburg gas processing plant.
00:07It sits more than 1-200 kilometers from the front line.
00:11Ukraine's general staff says the same strike hit Russia's only helium plant.
00:15Fires were reported at both facilities.
00:18The Orenburg complex is not just an energy site.
00:21It processes natural gas, sulfur, helium, and ethane.
00:25Those materials can support explosives, rocket systems, aviation cables, and other military-linked production.
00:33Russian officials said air defenses shot down hundreds of drones overnight.
00:38But fires and airport shutdowns were reported across the Orenburg region.
00:43Separately, officials in Nizhny Novgorod said two people were killed and two others injured after a drone attack on an
00:50industrial facility.
00:51Ukraine did not claim that specific strike.
00:54The wider raid also came as Crimea reported major power disruptions after attacks on energy infrastructure.
01:01This marks another sign that Ukraine's long-range drone campaign is reaching deeper into Russia.
01:07And the pressure is now moving from front-line bases to the industrial backbone of Moscow's war machine.
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