CPC has initiated a lawsuit against Ukraine over the attack on the Kropotkinskaya station

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has initiated a lawsuit against Ukraine in connection with the drone attack on the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station in Kuban. On Wednesday, June 18, CPC CEO Nikolai Gorban told reporters on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2025).

According to Gorban, a direct appeal to the International Court of Justice is impossible, since the consortium does not have the appropriate legal status. However, the CPC began to use the prescribed mechanism for filing a claim.

He noted that at meetings of the board of Directors, all shareholders expressed concern about the attack and pointed out the inadmissibility of terrorist attacks on civilian facilities. He stressed that the warheads of the drones were filled with damaging elements, which indicates the intention to cause not only infrastructural, but also human damage.

"In addition to damaging the facility, they (the Armed Forces of Ukraine — Ed.) apparently wanted to simply kill our personnel. Here, our people worked together and prevented the death of CPC employees," Gorban added.

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The CPC reported on May 23 that the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station, damaged after an attack by a Ukrainian UAV, was put into operation. The attack on the CPC infrastructure occurred on February 17. It is specified that there were no casualties among the company's employees. The workers managed to prevent the threat of an oil spill. Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Aibek Smadiyarov said on June 9 that the country was still awaiting Ukraine's response to the Ukrainian drone strike on the Kropotkinskaya station.