Gas storage in Ukraine. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 5 The operation of the Krasnopopovsk underground gas storage in the Luhansk region was stopped due to hostilities, the personnel was evacuated, Ukrtransgaz reported on Saturday. the decision was made due to the fact that hostilities in the territory of the Luhansk region are taking place dangerously close to the enterprise. Now gas extraction to the gas storage facility has been stopped. The personnel has been evacuated,» Ukrtransgaz said in a Facebook post.
Germany is unlikely to be able to refuse gas from Russia, an expert said the Krasnopopovsk underground gas storage is one of 12 owned by Ukrtransgaz, its volume is about 0.4 billion cubic meters . The total volume of all underground gas storage facilities is up to 30.1 billion cubic meters. Early Thursday morning, February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
