Mystery Fires at Key Russian Gas Pipeline Underscore the Humbling of Russia’s Gazprom, Cash Cow of Putin Era
If the stakes in Ukraine’s attacks on refineries can be measured in millions of dollars, the pipeline war’s stakes are billions of dollars and the future of Russia’s economy.
Overlooked by the world press, two fires broke out last week at the Russian end of its $13 billion TurkStream pipeline. The powerful Russkaya compressors pump Russian gas 578 miles across the Black Sea to Turkey and on to Central Europe. Ukrainian long-range drones presumably caused the mystery fires. Confirmed by NASA satellite photographs, the fires cast a spotlight on Russia and Ukraine’s murky “Spy vs. Spy” gas pipeline war.
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