{"id":364394,"date":"2025-08-22T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364394\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:22:15","slug":"bbc-verify-live-heat-data-and-video-show-russia-pipeline-struck-plus-latest-from-inside-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364394\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Heat data and video show Russia pipeline struck plus latest from inside Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine hits major Russian oil facilitypublished at 10:43 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b6b4f027-1d45-450c-b3d4-f4e9cdd82ebd.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Paul Brown<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ukraine has targeted a pumping station on the Druzhba oil pipeline linking Russia and Europe for the second time in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last night, the head of Ukraine&#8217;s unmanned systems forces reported a successful strike on a pumping site near Unecha in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The post included footage of an explosion and fire which we have matched to satellite imagery of the facility. Nasa satellites detected heat signatures at the site overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the second Ukrainian strike on this facility, and the third on the pipeline since 11 August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Druzhba pipeline began operating in 1964 and is a major transit route for Russian oil supplies to parts of eastern Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungary&#8217;s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has confirmed that oil supplies to his country have been halted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungary and Slovakia have continued to buy oil and gas from Russia while most European Union members have turned to alternative suppliers since the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Satellite imagery of the oil pumping station near Unecha\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/92047b1c-89f8-4925-af70-5a53529ae171.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"475\" height=\"267\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, GoogleImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Satellite imagery of the oil pumping station near Unecha before the attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine hits major Russian oil facilitypublished at 10:43 British Summer Time 10:43 BST Paul BrownBBC Verify senior journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-364394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115071925926516820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}