The State Duma pointed to the EU plan to "dissociate" from the attempted terrorist attack by the AFU on the "Turkish Stream" pipeline
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- The State Duma pointed to the EU plan to "dissociate" from the attempted terrorist attack by the AFU on the "Turkish Stream" pipeline
The European Union (EU) intends to "dissociate" itself from the attempted terrorist attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline station. At the same time, Kiev does not care that its actions may harm its own Western partners. Alexei Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, pointed this out in a conversation with Izvestia on January 13.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that on January 11, Ukraine tried to attack with nine drones a compressor station in Krasnodar Krai, through which gas is supplied via the Turkish Stream pipeline. The ministry stressed that Russian air defense forces shot down all the drones. European Commission spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, commenting at a briefing, said Brussels had no contacts with the Ukrainian side on the issue.
"Europe is increasingly trying to dissociate itself from terrorist attacks prepared by the Kiev regime, especially if they are large-scale attempts to deprive EU countries of Russian gas. By feeding Kiev with weapons and money, allowing it to kill civilians and organize explosions on Russian territory, the West itself has raised a monster that will stop at nothing now," Zhuravlev commented.
He also admitted that Kiev will continue to try to harm "Turkish Stream" as it does not care about the probable consequences of the accident for the EU countries.
Also on Monday, Hungarian Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Minister Péter Szijjártó said the pipeline ensures natural gas supplies to his country and other Central European states, and condemned the attempted attack.
Before that, on November 20, 2024, the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing sources, reported that former AFU commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny proposed, in addition to the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines, to blow up the Turkish Stream in the Black Sea, but the operation failed.
