Oil transit via Atyrau-Samara pipeline resumes after drone attack, Kazakhstan says

​Kazakhstan's energy ​ministry said on ‌Tuesday that ​it had restarted oil transit via ‌the Atyrau-Samara pipeline after drone attacks the previous day forced its operations offline ‌the previous day. Transit along the pipeline, ‌a key route for transporting Kazakh crude through Russia to international markets, ⁠was temporarily ​suspended overnight ⁠on Monday after the Samara Production and ⁠Dispatch Centre in Russia came under ​attack.

The energy ministry said pumping ⁠operations had been resumed following a technical ⁠inspection, ​and that the pipeline was operating in a normal mode. Ukraine ⁠regularly targets Russian energy infrastructure facilities and ⁠Moscow ⁠is systematically targeting Ukrainian energy objects.