MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. The Kiev regime has once again engaged in drone warfare against the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s largest oil pumping station, Kropotkinskaya, located in the Krasnodar Region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

TASS has compiled the main information about the incident.

Circumstances of attack

- Kiev attacked the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s largest oil pumping station, Kropotkinskaya, located in the Krasnodar Region, around 2 a.m. local time on March 24 (11:00 p.m. GMT on March 23), the Defense Ministry said.

- According to the ministry, Russian air defenses intercepted a Ukrainian drone seven kilometers from the Kropotkinskaya international energy infrastructure facility. Its fragments fell near the Kavkazskaya railway station.

- Despite what Vladimir Zelensky says, Ukraine continues to deliberately attack energy infrastructure, including international, on Russian territory, the ministry added.

- The region's operational headquarters said that a section of the contact network and the glazing of a building at a railway station in the Kavkazsky district were damaged.

- The press service of the North Caucasus Railway told TASS that a switch was also damaged. The incident did not affect train traffic.

Previous attacks

- On March 19, Kiev launched three drones at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's facility in the village of Kavkazskaya in the Krasnodar Region.

- The station ensures shipment of oil from railroad tank cars into the international oil transportation company's pipeline system.

- Earlier, on February 17, the Kiev regime attacked the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station. As a result, the facility was damaged and shut down for repair and restoration work.