13 Ukrainian drones were shot down in different regions of Russia
reported Mehr news agency, citing Sputnik, following the drone attacks of the Ukrainian army deep in Russian territory, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that the systems The air defense of this country last night in the border areas style=”text-a..”>Voronese, Belgorod, Briansk, Kursk, Kaluga” intercepted and destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones.
In the latest developments of the war in Ukraine, Reuters news agency announced that with the expiration of the agreement between Russia and Ukraine on the transfer of Moscow gas from Kiev to Europe, the Soviet-era pipelines that passed through It connects to Europe from Ukraine, it was empty.
Severing Russia’s oldest gas pipeline to Europe has ended a decade of tense relations between Moscow and Kiev, sparked by Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. A year later, Ukraine stopped buying Russian gas.
German Galuchenko, Minister of Energy of Ukraine announced in a statement: We have stopped the transfer of Russian gas. This is a historic event. Russia is losing its markets and will suffer financially. Europe has already decided to abandon Russian gas.
Transmission of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine was expected to be halted amid the war between the two countries, which began in February 2022. Ukraine was determined not to commit to the aforementioned agreement in the middle of the war.
According to a source in the field of Russian oil and gas industry, the energy giant of this country, Gazprom, predicted the suspension of gas transmission through Ukraine last year. was Russia’s gas transmission lines through Ukraine account for almost half of Moscow’s total gas exports through pipelines.
However, Russia continues to export its gas through the Turkstream pipeline on the Black Sea bed. Trackstream has two lines; One for the domestic market of Türkiye and the other for the buyers of central Europe such as Hungary and Serbia.
Gazprom wrote in a statement: due to the repeated and obvious refusal of the Ukrainian side to renew these contracts, Gazprom from January 1, 2025 The technical and legal ability to provide gas for transmission through the territory of Ukraine was denied.
