On the afternoon of October 16, the armed forces of Ukraine attacked the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug of Yugra with drones. As a result, a fire broke out in an "industrial facility located in the Surgut region", Governor Ruslan Kukharuk said. The extent of the damage is being determined. The Surgut condensate stabilization plant named after Chernomyrdin was hit during the strike, local residents say. Eyewitness footage published by the Ukrainian monitoring channel Supernova+ shows a strong fire in the enterprise with black smoke. The Surgut Condensate Stabilization Plant is located in the Surgut region. It is the largest oil-gas condensate mixture processing plant in Russia. Its design capacity is 12 million tons per year. It produces motor gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, liquefied hydrocarbon gases (LPGs) and stable gas condensate. The plant belongs to "Gazprom Processing" company. The distance from Surgut to the Ukrainian border is 2500 km. For the first time, the armed forces of Ukraine managed to hit the facilities of the Russian fuel and energy complex in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Earlier, on Friday, Kukharuk warned about the threat of an attack by UAVs. Rosavia has imposed restrictions on the reception and dispatch of aircraft at Surgut and Kogalym airports. 40% of all Russian oil is extracted in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The threat of drone attacks in the region was first announced on September 9, 2026. Shortly before that, it became known that the local authorities started preparing for periodic strikes. In particular, the social development department of the region proposed to include the consequences of UAV attacks in the list of "extreme life situations" so that the victims could receive hot food, grocery packages, clothes from the state. and other essential items. Ukraine resumed attacks on the facilities of Russia's fuel and energy complex on October 15, after a three-day pause at the request of US President Donald Trump. Yesterday, the armed forces of Ukraine hit the Ryazan oil refinery, the third largest in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clarified that Russia did not respect the energy ceasefire announced by Trump and killed more than 100 civilians in just one week, so the ban on hitting oil refineries is It happened.