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A major explosion has hit a key Russian gas pipeline for the second time in ten months.
Footage captured the huge fireball from the explosion on the Yamburg-Yelets 1 supply main.
The glow of the inferno and the column of smoke were visible for several kilometers away.
The cause of the explosion is being urgently investigated and comes amid a series of sabotage attacks on key Russian energy facilities linked to the war in Ukraine.
kyiv rarely claims responsibility for such attacks.
The powerful inferno occurred near the village of Lykhma in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, 300 miles north of the capital Khanty-Mansiysk.
The pipeline supplies gas from the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia to European Russia.
The pipeline supplies gas from the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia to European Russia.
The powerful inferno occurred near the village of Lykhma in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, 300 miles north of the capital Khanty-Mansiysk.
The pipeline supplies gas from the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia to European Russia.
Reports said there were no casualties in the remote explosion.
The gas pipeline had to be cut, affecting supplies to European Russia.
In January, Ukraine managed to use a fleet of drones to attack an oil refinery deep in Russian territory.
The SBU attacked a refinery used by the Russian oil company Rosneft in Tuapse, a city on the Black Sea, far from Ukrainian territory.
A fire at the facility reportedly spread over more than 200 square meters before being extinguished.
That attack took place four days after SBU drones attacked a refinery in Ust-Luga, a port city in the Leningrad region. The center is one of Russia’s two main oil export epicenters and the attack forced the country to halt operations at the time.
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