Overview
- Explosions and a fire were reported overnight at the Metafrax Chemicals facility in Gubakha, with local Telegram channels describing multiple blasts and evacuations.
- Sources in Ukraine’s Security Service said drones from the Alpha Special Operations Center carried out the attack roughly 1,600 kilometers inside Russia.
- Regional governor Dmitry Makhonin confirmed enemy drones were recorded over Perm Krai and reported no injuries or threat to residents.
- Metafrax produces methanol, hexamine, urea, and pentaerythritol used in explosives, and the group is under sanctions by the United Kingdom and Ukraine for defense links.
- The reported strike coincided with a separate Ukrainian attack on the Ilsky oil refinery and follows a prior hit on the same Metafrax site last September.