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On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said the Ukrainian army had established control over the Sudzha gas hub - a major gas facility involved in the transit of natural gas from Russia to the EU via Ukraine, which has continued despite the war. It is the only point of entry for Russian gas into the EU.
Although this has not been verified by the BBC, Mr Honcharenko’s comment was the first confirmation of an incursion into Russian territory by a Ukrainian official. Kyiv had previously not commented on reports of a cross-border attack.
But that gas goes through Ukraine. They could have stopped it at any time.
That’s a direct pipeline, it seems. Goes straight to the EU.
There’s a different pipeline (maybe several, not sure) going through Ukraine.
Cut off tail of snake and it will eventually grow back. Cut off head of snake and it cannot grow back.
But Ukraine was making a ton of money transporting Russian gas over their territory (before the war). Presumably they want the war to end with some kind of agreement that restores this deal, no?
Russia has consistently used that gas as leverage over Ukraine and the EU for the past 20 years or so.
And the EU was happy to buy it instead of transitioning away from it, thinking trading with Russia would pacify it.
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By blowing it up and causing an ecological disaster in their own country?
There should be cut off valves where they could have done it safely, but this is Russian built, they used positive power coefficients on their nuclear power plants…
You can’t count on common sense safety measures.