Slovakia expels suspected terrorist attackers to Ukraine and Hungary

Suspects suspected of preparing a terrorist attack on critical infrastructure in eastern Slovakia have been deported to Hungary and Ukraine. Slovak Interior Minister Matus Szutaj-Eštok said on December 2.

"One person was deported to Hungary and the other was immediately handed over to the competent authorities of Ukraine as part of the deportation," the Slovak Republic news agency quoted the Minister as saying.

It is reported that two foreign nationals and a citizen of the Slovak Republic, who are suspected of possibly preparing a terrorist attack on a gas or oil pipeline, used drones in the no-fly zone to monitor specific energy infrastructure facilities such as a transformer substation, Eustream gas compressor station, as well as a railway station, and a power plant on the Slovak-Ukrainian border. It was established that one of the suspects was in a car near the railway station Michalovce during the loading of military equipment of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic.

"Throughout the event were used various items to monitor activities, a number of phones, laptops, various electronic equipment for recording images and sound, data carriers, signal jammers, thermal imaging cameras, night vision devices, ballistic vest, maps and others," - said Šutaj-Eštok.

Earlier, on December 2, Magyar Nemzet reported that Hungary launched an investigation into Slovakia's information about a planned terrorist attack on the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Before that, on December 1, it became known about a fuel leak at the Druzhba oil pipeline in Poland. During the investigation, it was found that there was a spill of an oil-like substance in the field. PERN preemptively shut down one of the pumping substations. Until the end of the internal investigation, PERN, the Polish operator of the Druzhba pipeline, did not deny any of the theories about the causes of the incident, including intentional damage.

The Druzhba pipeline runs through Russia to the Belarusian city of Mozyr. It then branches off into two branches: the northern branch to Poland and Germany and the southern branch through Ukraine to Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Croatia.