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APRIL 2025

Looking For Escalation: Ukrainian Drones Targeted TurkStream Infrastructure In Russia

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Looking For Escalation: Ukrainian Drones Targeted TurkStream Infrastructure In Russia

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The fragile 30-day truce on energy infrastructure strikes, reached by Moscow and Washington on March 18, is collapsing as Ukrainian forces continue daily attacks on Russian power facilities. Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry recorded four separate attacks targeting energy infrastructure across three regions, alongside intercepted drone attacks on critical gas export facilities, revealing Kyiv’s determination to maintain pressure on Russia’s energy sector despite diplomatic agreements.

In the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, two separate artillery strikes on April 8 damaged high-voltage power lines, leaving villages without electricity. The first attack at 8.18 a.m. local time cut power to Bolshoye Soldatskoye, followed by the second strike at 1.20 p.m. that disrupted supply to Kamyshnoye and Krupets.

The campaign extended beyond frontline areas with a nighttime drone strike on the Botievo Wind Farm in Zaporizhzhia region – a rare attack on renewable energy infrastructure that reduced output by 3.25 MW.

Hours later, in the early morning of April 9, another UAV attack damaged power lines in Rostov region’s Kamensky District, affecting approximately 400 households.

These incidents mirror Ukraine’s established pattern of targeting border regions’ energy infrastructure to strain local populations and complicate repair efforts.

Most significantly, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported interception of eight Ukrainian drones targeting the Korenovskaya Compressor Station in Krasnodar region – a crucial node for the TurkStream gas pipeline supplying 31.5 billion cubic meters annually to European markets. Two more drones were shot down approaching the Temryuk gas distribution station near the Black Sea coast. While unsuccessful, these attacks mark a strategic escalation by targeting energy export infrastructure critical to Russia’s economy and European supply chains.

The Russian Defense Ministry has framed these incidents as clear violations of the U.S.-brokered agreement, stating that “the Kiev regime has not stopped attacking Russian energy infrastructure for a single day” since the March 18 truce took effect.

The ongoing attacks on energy infrastructure carry significant implications for the conflict’s trajectory. Ukraine appears committed to degrading Russia’s energy export capacity and domestic distribution networks despite diplomatic risks. The breakdown of the energy truce signals diminishing prospects for localized de-escalation agreements and suggests both sides are preparing for a protracted phase of mutual infrastructure targeting.

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Hypers ready

danish pilot and f-16 fighter instructor jepp hansen was reported killed in a missile strike on a ukrainian forces training centre in ukraine. french officer didier leboef killed in alp ski acccident, american brigadier general max boer dead in alpine climbing accident. +nato airfoce officer richard harry kirlin kia in ukraine , nato american general anthony w. potts kia in ukraine. nato french general jean-louis georgelin kia in ukraine. nato top general roger cloutier kia in ukraine etc.

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inpeacetiktokki

for such high ranking officers they don’t seem too bright. no wonder they are losing.

Norman Vincent Peelachuk

very clumsy of them. when you can’t get a real job, become a nato merc.

Sandra

if the ukrainians are not complete monkeys, they will destroy turkstream and shoot erdogan.

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Crocodile Tears

but they are complete monkeys, so no worries there.

Sorin

as i said before, because the ukrainian nazis do not respect any armistice or agreement, russia must destroy all of ukraine. bomb them very hard, destroy all energy installations, gas, electricity, water, so that the ukrainians beg for an unconditional surrender. zelensky and the ukrainian parliament must be liquidated.

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Spiderman

the nazi is in your 2 neurons brain parrot

Ramses

is amerikunt nazi retired janitor upset?

Norman Vincent Peelachuk

it’s tattooed on your forehead and you’re too ugly to look in the mirror to see it.

xythras

it’s kiev. not kyiv, not keev. fuck them and their spelling. southfront, don’t play into their narrative

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inpeacetiktokki

exactly it is kiev always will be. little green dwarf goblin can’t change all the centuries of cook book recipes around the world for chicken kiev.

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Crocodile Tears

kiev is run by a regime of headless chickens running around the barnyard shouting orders. heheheh

Crocodile Tears

in surzhik, it’s kyivaput, the land of nazty liliputians.

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Crocodile Tears

but lwow will always be polish heheheh

hepatitis zelelensky

my coffin factory receive 1300 new orders yesterday

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R. Ambrose Raven

fyi dear leaders of us in the west (zionist entity included) make agreements with the intention of breaking them. always have, always will.

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Norman Vincent Peelachuk

how to win friends and influence people.

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willy hillbilly

as a registered puritan nazi in burgerland my lgbt therapist allow me to use computer so i can tantrum at sf pretend i am superior russian

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