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Russia claims that it has repeatedly informed Türkiye about alleged Ukrainian preparations for sabotage attacks on the TurkStream and Blue Stream natural gas pipelines running beneath the Black Sea, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
"This information has been repeatedly conveyed to our Turkish colleagues," Peskov told journalists when asked about the alleged sabotage plans targeting the two undersea pipelines that supply the bulk of Türkiye's Russian gas imports.
The claims originated from a meeting President Vladimir Putin convened on Tuesday, Feb. 24, with officials of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow, where the Russian president delivered an address covering a wide range of topics and what he described as Western efforts to undermine peace negotiations over Ukraine.
"Our flash information is now circulating in mass media," Putin told the FSB board.
"It refers to a potential explosion at our gas systems on the Black Sea bottom, the so-called TurkStream and Blue Stream," he noted.
Peskov confirmed that Russian intelligence services possess information about the alleged plans. "Our special services have such information, they are recording attempts by the Kyiv regime to prepare for such new sabotage acts," the Kremlin spokesperson said.
Russia's Embassy in Ankara posted an urgent public warning on Tuesday, broadcasting Putin's claims on the social media platform X.
The post, published at 5:14 p.m. local time and marked "breaking news," featured a quote card bearing Putin's image and a Turkish-language statement alerting the public to reports of a potential attack on the two undersea pipelines.
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The Blue Stream pipeline, operational since 2003, runs from Russia's Beregovaya compressor station across the Black Sea to Türkiye's Samsun province, carrying up to 16 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
The TurkStream pipeline, launched in 2020, has two lines, one supplying Türkiye and another transiting gas to southeastern Europe, with a combined capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters per year.
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