[kellyhound]

A local unit of the Russian energy giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said on Tuesday that gas was being supplied to customers in full via parallel pipelines following a fatal explosion in a section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline.

The blast, near Kalinino, around 150 km (90 miles) west of the Volga city of Kazan in central Russia, killed three people and threatened to disrupt some of the limited volume of Russian gas that is still reaching Europe despite the economic fallout from Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.

"The damaged section of the gas pipeline was promptly localised. Gas is being transported to consumers in full through parallel gas pipelines," Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement.

The flow of gas through the "Urengoy-Tsentr-2" section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline, which takes gas from Russia's Arctic to central Europe via Ukraine, was halted as of 1:50 p.m. (1050 GMT), local officials said on the Telegram messaging app. A gas flare at the mouth of the pipe was extinguished soon after.

Oleg Nikolayev, governor of the Chuvashia region, told state television that three workers who had been servicing the pipeline had been killed, while another, a driver, was suffering shock.

Authorities were trying to work out when gas supplies through that section might resume.

The pipeline, built in the 1980s, enters Ukraine via the Sudzha metering point, currently the main route for Russian gas to reach Europe.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyOutpost ↗

"The main gas pipeline through Chuvashia is ablaze. The most important strategic gas pipeline that exports gas from Western Siberia to Europe is on fire. Again someone smoked in the wrong place."

Russia depends on the sale of petroleum products to fund basically everything.

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

A local unit of the Russian energy giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) said on Tuesday that gas was being supplied to customers in full via parallel pipelines following a fatal explosion in a section of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline.

Another video for this.

[WonderMomma]

A Russian mobilized soldier insulted Muslims and was punished:

"First, they made him beat his fingers with a bat, after which they put a plastic bottle and ordered him to sit down."

[WonderMomma]

1. The detained chmobik in the Bakhmut direction complains how the ZSU is giving nightmares to the Orks, and also that they were thrown like cannon fodder to the slaughter

2. In Moscow, a group of Z-padded men tried to throw sledgehammers at the building of the Finnish Embassy

3. Occupied by the Rashists, Mariupol was turned into a dystopian city

[WonderMomma]

More attempts to boost the moral of Russian soldiers...

"▪️Sverdlovsk singers and karaoke were brought to the front for the invaders.

▪️The military famously dance to "Music has bound us." The idea came from the Ministry of Culture of the Sverdlovsk region to support the "morale" of the military."

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

More attempts to boost the moral of Russian soldiers.

Clapping hands in slow motion.
Aren't they over-enthusiastic?

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Port of Murmansk, Russia

"A fire broke out today on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which has been undergoing modernization and repair since 2018."

The aircraft carrier apparantly also caught fire in December of 2019 at the same location.

[scorpion9]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyOutpost ↗

Port of Murmansk, Russia

"A fire broke out today on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which has been undergoing modernization and repair since 2018."

The aircraft carrier apparantly also caught fire in December of 2019 at the same location.

I think this ship would be more effective at destroying the enemy if Russia simply donated it to the enemy. The toll it would take on logistics to maintain this rust bucket would do more damage than whatever it could do when its put into service.

[WonderMomma]

Russian state TV discusses what they have to be proud of (with English subs)

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by scorpion9 ↗

I think this ship would be more effective at destroying the enemy if Russia simply donated it to the enemy. The toll it would take on logistics to maintain this rust bucket would do more damage than whatever it could do when its put into service.

For the Russian Navy, the idea of tug as escort has become standard. Says enough