“Ukraine attacks ‘Turkish creek’ to intimidate Europe,” Russian newspaper Vedanta reported on the 14th, ukrainian forces on the 13th launched a 9-drone attack in the Russian Krasnodar Krai Krasnodar“Gas pipeline compression station,” Trying to influence Russian gas supplies to European countries.
All the attacking drones were shot down and there were no casualties, but debris from one of them caused minor damage to the compressor station equipment, the Russian defense ministry said Sunday, Le Point reported. The Gazprom has repaired equipment and the compressor station has resumed supplying gas to the Turkish Creek pipeline. Ukraine had no immediate comment on the attack.
After the attack, “The security of energy supply is a matter of sovereignty, so every act that threatens the security of our energy supply should be regarded as an infringement of national sovereignty,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Itkonen Sialdo said in a social media post, adding: “We hope all parties will ensure the safety and smooth operation of this [ gas ] supply route.”, the European Commission is closely watching developments around Turkey Creek. Itkonen said the stability of energy supplies was“Vital for the EU”.
Reported that the“Turkish stream” is Russia through Turkey to Europe’s gas pipeline, its annual design capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters of gas, is currently between Russia and Europe, one of the few remaining gas pipelines. The pipeline is intended to carry gas to Turkey or via Turkey to southern or south-eastern Europe. Russian presidential press secretary Peskov said on the 13th that the Ukrainian attack on“Turkish Creek” is a continuation of the“Energy Terrorism Route”, whose beneficiaries are the United States. According to a report by the Russian satellite news agency on the 14th, Turkish scholar Saida Karan said, the new US sanctions and Ukraine’s attack on the pipeline were designed to“Strike at Europe’s energy system”. She said the attack was an attempt by the US to drive a wedge between Turkey and Russia and punish the Turkish people and their energy sector.
According to a Reuters report on the 14th, many places in Russia were subjected to large-scale drone and missile attacks by the Ukrainian army on the same day, russian air defences intercepted and destroyed hundreds of drones, five us-made ATACMS missiles and six Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Ukrainian security services said the Ukrainian air strikes hit Russia Saratov, Tula and other places ammunition storage facilities and chemical plants and other targets.