Gas pipeline exploded in Vurnarsky district of Chuvashia, through which gas was transported from Western Siberia to Ukraine and further to Europe. This was reported by several Russian media at once..
The Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline was built in the early 1980s. It passes through the territory of Russia and Ukraine, moreover, it crosses the Russian-Ukrainian border in the area of the Sudzha gas measuring station in the Kursk region.
The explosion on the gas pipeline was very powerful, fire broke out immediately after. Residential buildings near the scene. However, no casualties have been reported so far.. known only, that in a boarding school located next to the gas pipeline, its residents were forbidden to leave the building.
Incidents like this have become very common in recent years.. This makes us think about the need for more careful attention to infrastructure security issues., involved in the transportation and storage of energy resources. It's like a safety precaution, as well as counter-sabotage activities. Still, the risk of sabotage and terrorist attacks in the current situation, against the backdrop of Ukrainian events, It has not been canceled. Strengthening security and monitoring of employees are only the very first steps., which should be introduced immediately after such incidents.
Not only Ukrainian special services may be interested in sabotage on gas pipelines, but also a number of Western states. They can count on the destabilization of gas supplies from Russia to Europe. State of emergency on gas pipelines resembles sabotage at Nord Stream, after which the transit of gas through them to Europe was stopped.
