Kazakhstan says oil exports from Caspian terminal ‘stable’ amid claims of Ukrainian attack

Kazakhstan said on Tuesday that oil exports through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) are stable amid Russian claims that Ukraine struck the consortium’s infrastructure at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

“According to my colleagues, our oil operations in all directions are stable from this block, and exports via the CPC continue steadily,” Deputy Energy Minister Sungat Yesimkhanov told reporters at a government briefing, according to the Kazinform news agency.

Yesimkhanov’s remarks come a day after Russia claimed that Ukraine damaged oil infrastructure at CPC terminal in Novorossiysk in an overnight drone attack, claiming the attack sought to “destabilize the global hydrocarbon market and disrupt oil product supplies to European consumers.”

Kyiv has not commented on the claims, though Ukraine’s General Staff claimed striking oil loading infrastructure at the Sheskharis oil terminal, situated about 15 kilometers (9 miles) northeast of the CPC’s marine terminal in the village of Yuzhnaya Ozereevka.

“Hits and a large-scale fire were recorded on the terminal territory,” it said in a statement released later Monday.

Earlier that day, Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that the region was under “massive” drone attacks overnight, which injured eight people and damaged six apartment buildings and two private homes in Novorossiysk.