Ukrainians Attack Druzhba Oil Pipeline Again, Threatening Energy Supplies to Hungary and Slovakia
The pipeline war is ongoing.
On Monday (1), Ukrainian forces hit the Druzhba (‘Friendship’) oil pipeline in Russia’s central Tambov region, according to Kiev’s military intelligence source.
Reuters reported:
“It was the fifth Ukrainian attack on the pipeline which supplies Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, according to Reuters calculations.
Hungary and Slovakia continue to buy energy supplies from Russia, even after other European Union nations cut ties following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.”
Officials in Slovakia and Hungary said that oil supplies through Druzhba were running normally.
“Ukraine attacked the pipeline once in March, twice in August and once in September this year.”
Friendship is over: the “Druzhba” oil pipeline to Europe has been blown up again in Russia
This time the strike hit a section near the village of Kazinskiye Vyselki on the Taganrog–Lipetsk line.
Damage to one of Russia’s key oil arteries shows just how vulnerable its energy… pic.twitter.com/kJwrbLaPKc
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