March 28, 2025 (EIRNS)—Today, a key link in Kursk, for the historic Russian pipeline from Western Siberia’s gas fields to Hungary and EU nations, was targeted and destroyed from Ukraine by HIMARS artillery strikes, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense, which said that “the energy site was de facto destroyed” and providing a video of the large fire at the Sudzha gas metering station.
The energy route had provided Europe with cheap energy for decades. Last year, 15 billion cubic meters of Russian gas was delivered and Kiev received hundreds of millions of dollars in fees just for allowing the transit over its territory. When Kiev refused to renew the contract for this year, it caused immediate problems for some Eastern EU countries, and both Hungary and Slovakia called on the EU to pressure neighboring Ukraine to restore the deliveries. Today’s attack now makes it physically impossible in its current state.
The Russian Defense Ministry had also claimed earlier that Ukraine had planted explosive charges at the facility, prior to their recent withdrawal from Sudzha. The ministry concluded that “all previous public statements of the Kiev regime about its purported intention to suspend attacks against Russian civilian energy infrastructure are just a smokescreen.”
