There is a risk that in 2018 Russia will make attempts to destabilize the situation in a number of areas in the front-line territories of Donbass to seize new territories necessary for the Kremlin to establish gas supplies through the "Turkish stream".

About this People's Deputy, coordinator of "Information Resistance" Dmitry Tymchuk wrote on his Facebook page.

According to him, the "swing" may begin in the fall, and the seizure itself may be timed to coincide with the election of the president of the Russian Federation, "because on one" krimnash "Putin is getting out more and more difficult".

Thus, Tymchuk recalls that Russia announced the completion of the construction of the Turkish Stream for the transportation of gas to Turkey and a number of countries in southern Europe and plans to launch it in early 2018.

But, as the People's Deputy explains, the stable functioning of any southern gas transportation route by Russia is impossible without the infrastructure that is in Ukraine.

"In particular, in the city of Novopskov (Lugansk region) is the second largest and most significant gas hub for the Ukrainian gas transportation system. There are intertwined threads of several main gas pipelines. Some of them provide transit of gas to the West, and the other part - to the south, towards Rostov and the Kuban. From the Russian border to the hub - only 30 km. Previously, all this infrastructure was part of the UMG "Donbasstransgaz". The first thing Russian invaders did after the establishment of a more or less stable front line in winter 2015. - through the specialists of "Gazprom" took under full control the infrastructure of "Donbasstransgas", which appeared on the territory of the so-called LDPR, "Tymchuk writes..

He stresses that only a section in the northern part of the Luhansk region remained uncontrolled by Gazprom - just the most important.

So, in 2007, to bypass this segment, Russia built the gas pipeline "Sobirovka-Oktyabrskaya", which experts called a purely political project and the least successful investment. But in the end it turned out that even with this gas pipeline the task of stable pumping of gas through the "southern corridor" is not being resolved.

"The strategic task for Russia is to gain control over the entire infrastructure in the Lugansk region. After all, for the Kremlin the task is not solved, but time is running out. To launch the "Turkish stream" in such conditions means, in part, the decisions of Kiev. Considering the pressure that Ukraine is currently exerting on Gazprom, it is unlikely that the Russians will be pleased with this prospect. At the moment, the situation in the district is more or less stable. However, there is a risk that in 2018.

Russia will make attempts to destabilize the situation to seize this territory. , The swing can begin in autumn. It can be timed to the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, because on one "krimnash" Putin becomes more difficult to leave, "added Tymchuk.

As reported by the "Observer", previously Tymchuk explained the actions of the Russian army at the borders of Ukraine, noting that the invaders can prepare for an offensive.

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