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.

Long-term outlook for the network to maintain the shipping rate for Kazakh major oil developments remains in doubt

On February 17, seven unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the Kropotkinskaya pumping station in Russia, a crucial node in the 940-mile Caspian Pipeline Consortium that sends oil from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.