Main oil pipeline blown up in Russia's Saratov region - sources
On September 8, at about 1 a.m. local time, a powerful explosion occurred on a main oil pipeline in the Krasnoarmeisky district of the Saratov region of the Russian Federation, sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine told Interfax-Ukraine.
As the agency's interlocutor noted, the explosion disabled the Kuibyshev-Lysychansk main oil pipeline, which supplied the Russian occupation army with oil products. According to the source, the capacity of the affected facility is 82 million tons per year.
According to reports in local publications, in the morning after the explosions, a crowd of workers was observed at the scene, trying to eliminate the consequences of the attack.
This is the third facility of Russia's oil and gas infrastructure to be disabled in the past 24 hours alone. Earlier, explosions on gas pipelines and oil pipelines in the Penza region of the Russian Federation were reported.
As in previous cases, the aggressor's disinformation resources explain the series of explosions on strategic infrastructure in the Saratov region as "planned exercises."