Oil Pipeline Supplying the Russian Army Was Blown Up in the Saratov Region

On September 8, at about 1 a.m. local time, a powerful explosion occurred at an oil pipeline in the Saratov region.

Militarnyi’s sources in the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported this.

The explosion took place in the Krasnoarmeysk district of the region and disabled the Kuibyshev-Lysychansk oil pipeline, which, according to intelligence, supplied oil products to the Russian invasion army.

According to the source, the capacity of the affected facility is 82 million tons per year.

It is reported that in the morning after the explosion, many workers arrived at the scene to try to eliminate the consequences of the attack.

According to sources, this is the third object of Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure to be put out of commission in the past 24 hours. Earlier, explosions were reported on oil and gas pipelines in the city of Penza.

As in previous cases, Russian information resources explain the series of explosions on strategic infrastructure in the Saratov region as “planned exercises,” the intelligence source notes.