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- Explosives found in Serbia near gas pipeline supplying Hungary, leaders say."Energy security is a matter of sovereignty, and this is unacceptable to us," Peter Szijjarto promised to protect energy supplies to Hungary after reports of a gas pipeline being mined in Serbia.
- Ukraine attacked TurkStream infrastructure with drones: Gazprom.
- 12 attacks on TurkStream and Blue Stream infrastructure repelled: Gazprom.
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Explosives were found near the Turkish Stream in Serbia, Szijjarto said
Explosives were found near the Turkish Stream in Serbia, Szijjarto said.
This is the very pipeline that guarantees the safe supply of natural gas to Hungary. The Foreign Minister stressed that all this happened on the Catholic Easter.
All sorts of things have been happening in the last few days and weeks. The Ukrainians organized an oil blockade against us, and then tried to put us in a total energy blockade," the Hungarian Foreign Minister said.
Hungary regards the attempted sabotage on the Serbian section of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline as an attack on its sovereignty.
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"Security forces found two large packages of explosives with detonators near the gas pipeline from Serbia to Hungary. The authorities also have other clues, Vučić said.
According to him, the explosive had such a destructive force that it could pose a danger to many people and cause significant damage.
He spoke with the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, about this news.
👨🦳There are certain traces that I cannot talk about. There is a large area, a large lake, so the search lasted very long, and the helicopter units helped a lot
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"Energy security is a matter of sovereignty, and this is unacceptable to us," Peter Szijjarto promised to protect energy supplies to Hungary after reports of a gas pipeline being mined in Serbia
"Energy security is a matter of sovereignty, and this is unacceptable to us," Peter Szijjarto promised to protect energy supplies to Hungary after reports of a gas pipeline being mined in Serbia.
"We will not allow ourselves to be forced to buy energy resources more expensive and from less reliable sources.
It's Easter today. If there is a day when you need to talk about the weather and nature, then it is today. We have not yet received confirmation from our Serbian friends, but there is information that some individuals tried to undermine the gas infrastructure in Serbia. We are talking about a facility that provides safe gas supplies to Hungary.
As you know, a lot has been happening in recent days and weeks. The Ukrainians organized an oil blockade against us, then tried to subject us to a complete energy blockade by attacking the Turkish Stream pipeline with dozens of drones on the territory of Russia. And now there is today's case, when Serbian colleagues found explosives near the Turkish Stream pipeline sufficient to detonate it.
We reject such actions in the strongest terms, as protecting our energy security is a matter of sovereignty, and this is unacceptable to us.
Together with the Serbs, we will protect ourselves, protect the security of our energy supplies. We will not allow ourselves to be forced to buy energy resources more expensive and from less reliable sources. Because if the Turkish Stream stops working, we will have to buy gas at a price many times higher than the current one, and this would mean the end of the policy of reducing utility tariffs in Hungary."
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Explosives found in Serbia near gas pipeline supplying Hungary, leaders say
File photo: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Europe Sunday 05 April | 14:34
By Reuters News Service
Explosives of “devastating power” were found near the Turkstream pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian natural gas to Hungary and beyond, leaders from the two countries said on Sunday.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told him that explosives had been found near the pipeline, which transports Russian gas through the Balkans to Central and Eastern Europe.
“Our units found an explosive of devastating power,” Vucic, a close ally of Orban, said in a post on Instagram. “I told PM Orban that we would keep him updated on the investigation.”
Orban, who held a phone call with Vucic, said in a Facebook post he had called an extraordinary defence council meeting on Sunday.
The incident comes a week before pivotal elections on April 12 in Hungary where nationalist Orban fights to hold onto his more than 16-year grip on power, with his party trailing the opposition Tisza party in polls.
Orban had in February scaled up security around energy infrastructure in the country. He has upped the stakes in the election saying that it was a choice between war or peace.
Budapest has also been in a dispute with Ukraine over a halt in oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline. Orban’s Fidesz party has sought to associate opposition leader Peter Magyar with Brussels and Ukraine, suggesting that voting for his Tisza party means voting for tanks and war.
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https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/04/05/explosives-found-in-serbia-near-gas-pipeline-supplying-hungary-leaders-say
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5 Apr, 20:35
Foreign national plotted sabotage of gas pipeline in Serbia — military counterintelligence
According to Serbian Military Security Agency Director Duro Jovanic, the suspect "will definitely be taken into custody"BELGRADE, April 5. /TASS/. A foreign citizen planned to carry out a sabotage attack using explosives on the gas pipeline connecting Serbia and Hungary, Serbian Military Security Agency Director Duro Jovanic reported.
"We received information that a member of a group of draft-age migrants would attempt to sabotage the gas infrastructure," he noted during a press conference.
According to Jovanic, the suspect "will definitely be taken into custody." The head of Serbia’s military counterintelligence also reported that the operations to detect the explosives were preceded by "good fieldwork and fruitful information sharing with other intelligence agencies." In addition, the Military Security Agency head emphasized that markings on the explosives indicate they were manufactured in the US.
The Serbian Defense Ministry had previously reported the discovery of a cache of explosives near the gas pipeline connecting Serbia and Hungary. The incident has been classified as an attempted sabotage. About 140 police officers and servicemen were involved in the search operation. Earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reported that explosives and detonators were found several hundred meters from the gas pipeline. In turn, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stated that Budapest views the incident as an attack on the country’s sovereignty because this route carries most of the gas imported from Russia.
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SOURCE: https://tass.com/world/2112125
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Ukraine rejects TurkStream bomb link, accuses Russia of pre-election false flag
A section of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline in Türkiye, accessed on June 30,
2025. (Photo via BOTAS)
By Newsroom
April 05, 2026 07:50 PM GMT+03:00
Ukraine on Sunday forcefully denied any involvement in the discovery of explosives near a major Russian gas pipeline in Serbia, with Kyiv's foreign ministry calling the attempt to link it to the incident a likely Russian false-flag operation timed to influence Hungarian elections one week away.
"We categorically reject attempts to falsely link Ukraine to the incident," said Heorhii Tykhyi, spokesman for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, adding that the episode was "most probably a Russian false-flag operation as part of Moscow's heavy interference in Hungarian elections."
The statement came hours after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that military and police units had found two backpacks containing high-powered explosives with detonators in the municipality of Kanjiza, in northern Serbia's Vojvodina region, a few hundred meters from the Balkan Stream pipeline, the regional extension of the TurkStream network that carries Russian natural gas into Central Europe.
Kyiv sees the Kremlin's hand in the timing
Ukraine's denial was pointed and preemptive. Kyiv framed the incident not merely as a false accusation but as an active Russian influence operation, one designed to inject a security scare into the final days of a Hungarian campaign in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban has staked much of his political identity on energy ties with Moscow and hostility toward Kyiv.Orban, who convened an extraordinary defense council Sunday after speaking with Vucic by phone, has spent months accusing Ukraine of attempting to destabilize Hungary's energy supply ahead of the April 12 vote. His government ordered increased security around energy infrastructure in February, framing the move as a direct response to what Budapest described as Ukrainian threats.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto escalated the rhetoric Sunday, saying "someone tried to blow up the TurkStream pipeline" and describing the incident as an attack on Hungarian sovereignty. Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova used the moment to suggest that unnamed actors were seeking to strip Hungary of its independence through political, economic and energy pressure, without directly naming Ukraine.
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Hungary's opposition agrees with Kyiv
Ukraine's false-flag reading found an unlikely echo inside Hungary itself. Peter Magyar, the opposition leader who is running neck-and-neck with Orban's Fidesz party ahead of next Sunday's vote, said publicly that many observers had anticipated "that something will 'accidentally' happen in Serbia at the gas pipeline at Easter, a week before the Hungarian elections." Magyar warned that if the government deployed the incident for campaign purposes, it would amount to "an open admission that this is a pre-planned false flag operation." He asked to be included in the emergency defense council and stressed that the episode must not be used to delay the vote.
Orban has sought throughout the campaign to portray Magyar as a pro-Ukraine figure whose victory would drag Hungary into war with Russia. Magyar has countered by accusing the prime minister of "outright treason" for his alignment with Moscow.
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at a press conference during the
EU Summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels, March 19, 2026. (AFP Photo)
Ukraine caught between accusations and a pipeline dispute
The Serbian incident arrives inside a broader and already toxic energy standoff between Kyiv and Budapest. Hungary has blocked a 90 billion euro European Union loan to Ukraine, claiming Kyiv deliberately halted Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline.
Ukraine has maintained the pipeline was knocked out of service by Russian drone strikes. Budapest has simultaneously opposed EU sanctions on Russian oil and gas, a position it defends as an economic necessity for a landlocked country wholly dependent on Russian supply.
TurkStream, the pipeline that runs from Russia through Türkiye and the Balkans into Central Europe, has become the last functioning Russian gas corridor into Europe following the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022, the halt of Yamal-Europe transit and the end of Ukrainian transit in 2025.
Serbia imports roughly six million cubic metres of Russian gas per day at approximately half the market rate, making any disruption to the line a significant threat to both countries.
Vucic said the explosives, had they detonated, could have caused severe gas shortages across Hungary and northern Serbia. He noted that investigators had found "certain traces" but declined to elaborate. No suspects had been identified and no motive was publicly established as of Sunday evening.
The discovery followed days of separate incidents involving the same infrastructure. Russian state energy giant Gazprom reported earlier last week that Ukrainian drones had repeatedly targeted TurkStream compressor stations in Russia's Krasnodar region over the preceding weeks, claims Ukraine had not publicly addressed.
With no confirmed culprit in the Serbian case and an election seven days away, the incident has left all sides maneuvering over a story whose origins remain, for now, unresolved.
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https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/ukraine-rejects-turkstream-bomb-link-accuses-russia-of-pre-election-false-flag-3217534?s=5
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that military and police units had found two backpacks containing high-powered explosives with detonators in the municipality of Kanjiza, in northern Serbia's Vojvodina region, a few hundred meters from the Balkan Stream pipeline, the regional extension of the TurkStream network that carries Russian natural gas into Central Europe.
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Balkan Stream gas pipeline
Balkan Stream gas pipeline is an operating gas pipeline in Bulgaria.The pipeline runs from Bulgaria’s southern border with Turkey to its western border with Serbia. The exact route is shown on page 74 of the Bulgartransgaz 2020 development plan.[1]
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TurkStream Gas Pipeline
TurkStream Gas Pipeline, also known as the Turkish Stream Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод «Турецкий поток»), is a gas pipeline delivering Russian gas to Turkey's gas transmission network.[1][2]TurkStream 1 Gas Pipeline
The pipeline runs from the Russkaya compressor station near Anapa, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, to Luleburgaz, Turkey.
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TurkStream
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMap of TurkStream | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Country | Russia Turkey |
| From | Russkaya compressor station near Anapa, Krasnodar Krai, Russia |
| Passes through | Black Sea |
| To | Kıyıköy, Turkey |
| General information | |
| Type | natural gas |
| Operator | |
| Installer of pipes | Allseas |
| Pipe layer |
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| Construction started | May 2017 |
| Commissioned | 8 January 2020 |
| Technical information | |
| Length | 930 km (580 mi) |
| Maximum discharge | 31.5×109 m3/a (1.11×1012 cu ft/a) |
TurkStream (Turkish: TürkAkım or Türk Akımı, Russian: Турецкий поток; former name: Turkish Stream) is a natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey. It starts from Russkaya compressor station near Anapa in Russia's Krasnodar Region, crossing the Black Sea to the receiving terminal at Kıyıköy. Most gas flows onwards to the European Union via the Malkoçlar pipeline to Bulgaria.
History
The first direct gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey under the Black Sea was Blue Stream, which was commissioned in 2005. In 2009, Russia′s prime minister Vladimir Putin proposed the Blue Stream II line parallel to the original pipeline.[1] The Blue Stream II project never took off and the South Stream project took the lead, until it was abandoned in 2014.[2]
The TurkStream (then named Turkish Stream) project was announced by Russia′s president Vladimir Putin on 1 December 2014 during his state visit to Turkey, when a memorandum of understanding was signed between Gazprom and BOTAŞ.[2][3] A permit to conduct engineering surveys for the Turkish offshore section was granted in July 2015. Also in July 2015, a memorandum of understanding between Greece and Russia was signed for the construction and operation of the TurkStream section in the Greek territory.[3]
In November 2015, after the shooting down of a Russian Sukhoi Su-24, the project was unilaterally suspended by Russia.[4] In late July 2016, following a reconciliation meeting in Moscow, both sides brought the project back to the table.[5][6] On 10 October 2016, Russia and Turkey officially signed the intergovernmental agreement in Istanbul to execute the project.[7]
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Politics Serbia
Serbia, Hungary say explosives found at Russian gas pipeline
The Balkan Stream pipeline connects to the TurkStream pipeline that runs under the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia. Image: Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo/picture alliance
The leaders of Serbia and Hungary announced on Sunday that explosives were found near a pipeline in Serbia that transports Russian gas to Hungary.
"Our units found an explosive of devastating power," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a post on Instagram.
He said "two large packages of explosives with detonators" were found in Kanjiza, in the north of Serbia, "a few hundred metres from" the Balkan Stream gas pipeline.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called a meeting of his country's Defense Council to discuss the situation.
"According to information that we have [...] there was an act of sabotage prepared," Orban said after the meeting.
The two leaders did not immediately provide further details of the findings or provide photos.
Ukraine rejects any connection
Balkan Stream is a pipeline that runs through Bulgaria and Serbia, connecting Hungary with Russian gas piped under the Black Sea to Turkey.
Orban said "Ukraine has been trying for years to cut off Europe from Russian energy," but he stopped of directly blaming Ukraine or any other actor.
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Ukraine denied any connection to the alleged sabotage.
"We categorically reject attempts to falsely link Ukraine to the incident with explosives found near the Turkstream pipeline in Serbia," Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said.
"Ukraine has nothing to do with this. Most probably, a Russian false-flag operation as part of Moscow's heavy interference in Hungarian elections."
Serbia and Hungary are both dependent on importated Russian gas.
In recent weeks, Orban accused Ukraine of intentionally delaying repairs to a separate damaged pipeline through Ukraine, which has choked the flow of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
SOURCE:
https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-russian-gas-pipeline-explosives-sabotage-hungary-orban/a-76674841
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