Ukraine Blows Up Russian Gas Pipeline in Western Siberia

Ukraine has reportedly blown up a 2.6 billion cubic meters per year natural gas pipeline in western Siberia, disrupting gas supply to Russian military production facilities. The attack is part of a special operation and comes amid Russia's ongoing air strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions. Ukraine has been targeting Russian energy infrastructure to disrupt oil refinery operations and limit fuel supplies.

Ukraine has reportedly blown up a gas pipeline in western Siberia, disrupting gas supply to Russian military production facilities. The attack, part of a special operation, comes amid Russia's ongoing air strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions. The pipeline, with a capacity of 2.6 billion cubic meters per year, was targeted in the Khanty-Mansi region, approximately 3,000 kilometers from Moscow [2].

The explosion reportedly destroyed a section of the pipeline, leading to immediate damages estimated at $1.3 million. Repairing and testing the pipeline could take about a month, further reducing gas supply by 25 million cubic meters and causing indirect losses of nearly $76 million [1]. The damaged pipeline delivers natural gas to military production facilities in Russia's Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, and Sverdlovsk regions, all located thousands of kilometers from the explosion site [2].

This is not the first time Ukraine has targeted Russian energy infrastructure. In January, Russia's air-defense downed drones targeting a pumping station on the Black Sea coast linked to the TurkStream export pipeline. In February, Ukrainian drones damaged a Russian pumping station supplying crude to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium [3].

The attack comes as Russia has been unleashing massive air strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions. In the most recent attack, two people were killed and 28 wounded as around 400 drones and 18 missiles, including ballistic ones, targeted the Ukrainian capital [3]. Ukraine has been using such attacks to disrupt oil refinery operations, limit fuel supplies to the front lines, and curtail oil and gas exports.

The alleged attack comes as Russia has been unleashing massive air strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions. In the most recent attack, two people were killed and 28 wounded as around 400 drones and 18 missiles, including ballistic ones, targeted the Ukrainian capital. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the air raid, which lasted for almost 10 hours, as “a clear escalation of terror by Russia” in a post on X [2].

References:
[1] https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-behind-new-pipeline-explosion-in-siberia-that-supplies-russian-military-industrial-complex-source-claims/
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/ukraine-says-it-blew-up-russia-domestic-gas-link-in-west-siberia
[3] https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-97/