Kazakhstan will seek contact with Ukraine in order to avoid any repeat of this week's Ukrainian drone strike in southern Russia that hit a pumping station of the main Kazakh oil export pipeline, an official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Kazakhstan’s oil exports could be cut by as much as 30% for up to two months following the February 17 Ukrainian drone strike on a key pipeline pumping station, Russia’s state pipeline operator Transneft said on February 18.

The largest oil pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in Russia — Kropotkinskaya in the Kavkazsky district of Kuban — was attacked by unmanned aerial vehicles on Monday, the consortium reports.