Transneft found explosives at Novozybkov oil pumping station near Bryansk
MOSCOW, March 15 – RIA Novosti. The press secretary, adviser to the head of the pipeline, told reporters that Transneft’s Druzhba pipeline system in the Bryansk region found a large number of explosive devices at the Novozybkov oil pumping station, the station that stopped pumping oil last year was not damaged. .company Igor Demin.
“Indeed, yesterday evening and this morning on the territory of the Novozybkov oil pumping station, explosive devices with a striking warhead in the form of steel balls were found in destroyed plastic crates of non-industrial production,” Demin said.
“Probably, the destruction of the hulls occurred after hitting the ground while falling from the drones. And at noon today, it was noticed that another explosive assembly had been fired from a UAV, probably similar to the previous two.”
Demin noted that last year Novozybkov PS stopped pumping oil, the tank farm was empty. At the same time, as for the attacks, “the nature of the warhead – metal cannons – shows that the purpose of the saboteurs was not to destroy the object, but to kill people from among the civilian personnel serving the Druzhba oil pipeline station. ” Novozybkov “was not injured,” he concluded.
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This year, information about attacks on the facilities of the Druzhba pipeline system has already been heard many times.
In early February, Demin also spoke with RIA Novosti about the attempted bombing of the Novozybkov oil refinery on 31 January. No one was injured during this incident and the pipeline continued to operate normally. The Druzhba oil pipeline exits Almetyevsk, passes through Bryansk, and then divides into two parts: northern (from the territory of Belarus to Poland) and south (from the territory of Ukraine to Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic ).
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Source: Ria
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