Just minutes after claiming the 'explosion' at "The Brotherhood" pipeline [5] in Ukraine was not an explosion but a 'fire', Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov has stated that:
- *UKRAINE SAYS GAS PIPELINE EXPLOSION PROBABLY TERROR ATTACK
Of course, the question is which 'terrorists'? The Right Sector or the Russian separatists. According to reports from UKRTransGas, the fire has now been extinguished but it is the rhetoric of Ukraine's Yatsenyuk "Russia is trying to detroy Ukraine" that is most troubling as, like Russia's Pushkov warned, Ukraine-Russia tensions have reached a new stage.
As Bloomberg reports, Ukraine is blaming the Russians for the explosion...
Terrorism suspected in blast today on Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod transit pipeline, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says in website statement.
Other causes of explosion also under investigation
Avakov says explosion is another attempt by Russia to discredit Ukraine as partner in gas industry
Gas transit wasn’t disrupted
Ukraine to boost security along gas transport system, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev says on Facebook
But did Ukraine 'terrorize' its own infrastructure? Biting off their own nose to spite the Russians as they no longer benefit from it... and forcing a squeeze on European supplies in order to gain more backing for either aid or military action?
Gas pipe line #explosion [6] — picture of blast site. Sabotage suspected. pic.twitter.com/GSTKxmmcPF [7]
— Gregory Zhygalov (@GZhygalov) June 17, 2014 [8]
The following clip (translated by Bloomberg) suggests tensions in Ukraine are anything but the calm that the mainstream media appears to make out: "Russia's gas halt aims to destroy Ukraine"
