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Hungary places TurkStream pipeline under military protection after Serbia explosives scare
Hungary will place the entire Hungarian section of the TurkStream pipeline under military protection, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced after Sunday’s extraordinary Defence Council meeting convened by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
According to Szijjártó, soldiers will now guard the gas pipeline, including all transfer points, along its full Hungarian route from the Serbia–Hungary border to the Slovak border, after Serbian authorities earlier discovered suspicious objects and reportedly explosive materials near the pipeline close to Oromhegyes near Kanjiža. The large-scale Serbian operation involved police, military units, drones, thermal cameras, helicopters and tracker dogs.
Speaking after the Defence Council session, Szijjártó linked the foiled incident to what he described as a series of attacks on Russian oil and gas supply routes to Europe, arguing that the physical protection of TurkStream must now be strengthened “more decisively than ever before” across its entire European section. He added that he had already consulted with the Serbian, Turkish and Russian energy ministers, and the four sides agreed to maintain close coordination to secure the pipeline.
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Serbian special services have established that Ukraine was not involved in the explosives found near the Turkish Stream pipeline in Serbia. This is reported by Kurir.
Director of Serbia’s Military Security Agency Juro Jovanic said that intelligence services have encountered “a lot of misinformation” regarding the planting of explosives on the Turkish Stream pipeline.
“Disinformation indicates that the Serbian Armed Forces and its soldiers will work for some other or third party, finding Ukrainian explosives and blaming Ukraine. This is not true,” he stressed.
He said that just because someone produces explosives does not mean that they are the perpetrator or the customer.
Jovanic disclosed that the markings on the explosives indicate that they were made in the United States.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto earlier said that sabotage on a section of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline in Serbia was organized by Ukraine.