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Russian energy giant Gazprom revealed on March 11 that over the past two weeks, 12 attacks on its facilities that ensure export supplies via the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines towards Türkiye have been repelled.
In a statement, the company said that the Russkaya compressor station in southern Russia was again attacked via air, and the day before, attacks on the Beregovaya and the Kazachya stations were registered.
“In total, over the past two weeks, starting February 24, Gazprom facilities in southern Russia have been attacked 12 times. These facilities are part of the critically important energy infrastructure and ensure the reliability of export gas supplies via the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines,” it said.
The latest Ukrainian attack on Russkaya was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which said in a statement that the goal was to halt gas supplies to European consumers.
The compressor station, located near the town of Gai-Kodzor in Krasnodarsky Krai, ensures gas supplies via the TurkStream pipeline.
“From 23:47 on 10 March until 05:08 on 11 March, four attacking Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] were shot down by Russian surface-to-air missile units in the airspace adjacent to the station, two Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted by fighter aircraft, and three—including two directly over the compressor station (at 04:04 and 05:08)—were destroyed by mobile fire teams,” the ministry said in a statement.
It reported that another UAV was shot down over the compressor station during the day on March 11, exactly at 15:58 Moscow time.
“Simultaneously with the attempts to disable the Russkaya gas compressor station, the Kiev regime attempted to launch an attack during the night of 11 March using 14 fixed-wing UAVs against the Beregovaya compressor station of the Blue Stream pipeline in the area of Tuapse,” the ministry added.
Ukraine stopped deliveries of oil via the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia. In response, Budapest blocked a 90 billion euro European Union loan to Kiev.
Currently, Hungary continues to receive Russian gas via TurkStream and deliver it to Slovakia. This is likely the reason why Ukraine is so keen on targeting the pipeline.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Minister Szijjártó described recent Ukrainian attempts to hit TurkStream in particular as a serious attack on Hungary’s sovereignty, noting that the pipeline is currently one of the most important gas supply routes in Hungary.
“Without TurkStream, Hungary simply cannot be supplied with gas safely from a geographical and physical standpoint,” the minister wrote on X.
“Ukraine’s oil blockade through the Druzhba pipeline and this strike against TurkStream are serious attacks on our sovereignty,” he added.
There is little doubt that the recent Ukrainian attacks on TurkStream and Blue Stream are meant to blackmail Hungary into approving the EU loan.
These attacks also came amid a de facto Iranian blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, a major waterway that transports 20% of global oil from the Persian Gulf, caused by the American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic.
The war left Ukraine very much abandoned, with both the EU and the United States rushing their military assets to the Middle East to protect Israel and wealthy Gulf countries. Kiev, desperate to regain the attention and support of its allies, likely believes that inflaming the global energy crisis would allow it to extort something.
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“the war left ukraine very much abandoned”
the people of ukraine have suffered for many years at the hands of foreign installed degenerates they refer to as their “leadership”.
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us/nato pump weapons,missile,stelite intellegence, to ukraine to kill russians and russin soldiers yet putin pump gaas,oil to killer europeans.
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