Damage inflicted on the Orenburg Gas Processing Plant (GPP) and the helium plant. Damage to buildings of the Vladimir space communications center confirmed by General Staff of Ukraine.
On the night of 24 June 2026, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in Russia’s Orenburg region struck the Orenburg gas processing plant and the only helium plant in Russia. Distance: over 1,200 km from the line of combat contact.
A fire was recorded on the premises of the facilities. The extent of the damage is being clarified.
The Orenburg Gas Processing Plant (GPP) and the Orenburg Helium Plant (OGP) form a single industrial complex.
The GPP produces purified natural gas and sulfur (which, among other things, is used in the production of explosives and black powder).
The OGP processes purified desulfurized gas and, through deep cooling, extracts the most valuable components from it — helium (an inert gas used in rocket engines and guidance systems) and ethane (a key feedstock for the synthesis of specialty plastics, aviation cable insulation, and key plasticizers for solid rocket fuels and propellants).
The Orenburg GPP is one of the largest gas-chemical complexes in the world, commissioned in 1974 (built with foreign participation).
Capacity of the facility: 45 billion cubic meters of gas per year; the plant accounts for 60% of all gas processed by “Gazprom Processing”.
In Russia’s Belgorod region, a Russian forces FPV drone storage site was struck in the area of Alexeyevka.
Strikes were also carried out on UAV control points in the areas of Chasiv Yar (Donetsk region), Basan and Hrozove (Zaporizhzhia region), Tyotkino and Popovo-Lezhachi (Kursk region, Russia), as well as Zhuravlivka (Belgorod region, Russia).
In addition, analysis of data confirmed the destruction of two unmanned naval surface vessels on 23 June 2026 in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
Damage to two buildings with subsequent fire at the Vladimir space communications center in Vladimir region, Russia, has also been confirmed.
The center supports satellite and deep-space communications systems used, among other things, for the benefit of Russian forces security forces.
