{"id":364724,"date":"2025-08-22T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364724\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:22:13","slug":"bbc-verify-live-heat-data-and-video-show-russia-pipeline-struck-plus-latest-from-inside-gaza-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364724\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Heat data and video show Russia pipeline struck plus latest from inside Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the Druzhba oil pipeline?published at 13:13 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

13:13 BST<\/p>\n

Thomas Copeland<\/strong>
BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve verified three Ukrainian strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline since the beginning of August including a second attack on a pumping station near Unecha last night.<\/p>\n

This follows a strike on a site near Nikolskyoye earlier this month. <\/p>\n

Ukraine and Russia have stepped up attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the past few weeks and the Druzhba pipeline has become a key Ukrainian target. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The 4,000km (2,500 mile) Soviet-era pipeline has long been the major transit route for oil supplies from Russia into Europe.<\/p>\n

Since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, however, the European Union has reduced its imports with the aim of phasing out Russian oil and gas entirely by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

Member states Slovakia and Hungary are the only EU countries still importing Russian crude oil and they oppose this phasing out, arguing their economies rely on energy imports from Russia.<\/p>\n

Hungary imported \u20ac200m (\u00a3173m; $232m) of Russian crude oil in July via the Druzhba pipeline. <\/p>\n

Slovakia was just behind at \u20ac169m (\u00a3146m; $200m), according to Petras Katinas of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.<\/p>\n

About 5% of Russian crude oil exports have flowed through the Druzhba pipeline so far this year, Katinas told BBC Verify. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the Druzhba oil pipeline?published at 13:13 British Summer Time 13:13 BST Thomas CopelandBBC Verify Live journalist…\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-364724","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\/115072633783573270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364724","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=364724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364724\/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=364724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}