Gas explosion on December 20 at the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod transit pipeline staged by Gazprom itself to stop transit through Ukraine. This was stated by energy markets analyst Maxim Bilyavsky.

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Belyavsky believes that in this way the Russians, firstly, will try to create problems for Ukraine in terms of gas transportation regimes for Ukrainian consumers, including generation, and thereby expand the tools for blocking the possibilities of our energy system.

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Secondly, according to him, the Russians want to create additional pressure on gas prices in the EU to the price cap of 180 euros per MWh, which was recently adopted.

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" I do not exclude that terrorists are preparing sabotage attacks on EU infrastructure during the winter period,"

He noted that in this context, it also suggests that the Russians have prepared an alternative proposal for the EU - this is the route for the supply of Russian gas through Belarus..

“Perhaps, two dictators Putin and Lukashenko recently agreed on this in Minsk,” Belyavsky suggested..

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Recall that on December 20 in Chuvashia there was a large-scale fire on the main gas pipeline Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod.

A gas pipeline built in the early 1980s delivers Russian fuel to Western Europe via Ukraine.

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The previous explosive episode with the gas pipeline occurred in June, in the Poltava region. Then they suspected sabotage. But Ukraine did not allow the failure of gas transit to Europe.