Gazprom (Russia) reported on the escalation and repelling of new attacks on gas facilities that ensure gas exports through the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines to Turkey.
New attacks on Gazprom's export infrastructure. From March 17 to 19, there has been an escalation of attacks on critical infrastructure ensuring gas exports through the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines" - Gazprom stated in a statement.
The attacks were repelled thanks to the coordinated efforts of the Russian Ministry of Defense and mobile response teams, without causing damage to facilities.
Accordingly, attacks on the Russkaya gas station by 22 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 3 unmanned aerial vehicles attacking the Kazakh gas station and 1 unmanned aerial vehicle attacking the Beregovaya gas station were recorded.
Earlier, speaking at a meeting of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there may be plots to sabotage the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the Black Sea. After that, Gazprom recorded several attacks on the corporation's infrastructure.
Russia supplies gas to Turkey through 2 gas pipelines in the Black Sea. The Blue Stream pipeline was put into operation in early 2003, with a designed capacity of 16 billion m3 per year and a total length of 1,213km.
The TurkStream export gas pipeline includes 2 lines: one line for supplying gas to Turkish consumers and the other line for transporting gas to countries in Southern and Southeast Europe. TurkStream's total capacity is 31.5 billion m3 and was put into operation in January 2020.
Currently, TurkStream is still the only route still operating to supply Russian gas to Europe after Ukraine stopped transiting Russian gas. The starting point of TurkStream is the Russkaya gas compression station, built near Anapa.
