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Largest Gas Pipeline Serving Europe Through Ukraine Blows Up
Image Credits: 1983 Soviet stamp dedicated to Urengoy-Uzhgorod transcontinental export pipeline
by INFOWARS | JUNE 17, 2014
The Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod or “Brotherhood” natural gas pipeline in the Poltava region of central Ukraine has gone up in flames.
It is the largest consumer gas pipeline in Europe supplying gas to the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary and countries in the Balkans. The pipeline stretches 2,800 miles from Siberia’s Urengoy gas field through Ukraine to Europe.
According to witnesses flames from the ruptured pipeline reached 200 meters high.
“The explosion occurred at about 14:45 local time in a field. Due to the flame and the high temperatures, it is impossible to get closer to the epicenter,” a local police press service statementreported.
It was not clear if the explosion was an accident or deliberate. The incident follows on the heels of the Russian energy company Gazprom cutting off gas supplies on Monday after Ukraine missed paying an installment of nearly $2 billion for past deliveries.
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is it even a question if this was done on purpose?? Russia cuts off gas yesterday, explosion today, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I wonder