Ukraine assaults petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan with drones, says Russia

“A Ukrainian drone assault broken the Sterlitamak petrochemical plant deep inside Russia, inflicting a partial collapse of a water-treatment facility however no accidents,” regional authorities stated on Tuesday (November 4, 2025).

“The plant within the Bashkortostan area, some 1,500 km from the Ukrainian border within the Urals Mountains, was working with out interruption,” the pinnacle of the Bashkortostan area, Radiy Khabirov, stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Mr. Khabirov added that each of the drones concerned within the in a single day strike have been destroyed. The Russian Defence Ministry stated in its each day report that along with the 2 drones downed over the Bashkortostan area, its defence programs destroyed 83 drones over seven different Russian areas.

The administration of the town of Sterlitamak, the place the plant is situated, stated that every one 5 employees inside weren’t injured.

There was no speedy remark from Ukraine. Kyiv has stepped up long-range drone and missile strikes inside Russia, hitting oil refineries, depots, and logistics hubs, which it says feed the Kremlin’s conflict machine.

Moscow calls the assaults terrorism, however Ukraine says they’re authentic self-defence within the conflict that Russia launched in February 2022.