Drone Attacks Druzhba Oil Pipeline Substation

• 4.03.2023, 12:59

The details of a powerful explosion in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation have become known.

In the Belgorod region, a drone attacked a substation of the Transneft-Druzhba oil pipeline. The incident happened on March 3, Charter97.org reports.

Based on publications in Russian media, RBC-Ukraine learned the details of the attack.

In particular, according to the ASTRA Telegram channel, a homemade drone equipped with an explosive device attacked an empty oil tank with a capacity of 3,000 tons in the village of Razumnoye on March 3 around 7 am.

“4 people were evacuated, no one was injured,” the message says.

As the Baza Telegram channel assures, the UAV allegedly “arrived from Ukraine.”

“As a result, a hole of 1 square meter was formed in the tank,” the post added.

Druzhba is the world's largest system of main oil pipelines. Its route runs from Almetievsk to Bryansk and then to Mazyr, after which it branches into two sections: northern (through Belarus, Poland, Germany, Latvia and Lithuania) and southern (through Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia).