MOSCOW, March 15 Transneft has found several explosive devices at the Novozybkov oil pumping station of the Druzhba pipeline system in the Bryansk region, Igor Demin, adviser to the company's president, said.
«On the territory of the Novozybkov oil pumping station «Last night and this morning, explosive devices were found in destroyed plastic cases of non-industrial production with a striking warhead in the form of steel balls,» he said.
At the same time, the station itself, which stopped pumping oil last year, was not damaged.
The UAV dropped another explosive device, probably similar to the previous two,» Demin added.
The nature of the warhead — metal balls — suggests that the organizers of the sabotage did not intend to destroy the object, but to kill people from among the civilian personnel serving the oil pipeline station, the adviser to the president of the company explained.
“Investigative actions are underway,” Demin concluded.
Demin reported on an attempt to shell the Novozybkov oil refinery at the end of January. Then no one was hurt, and the pipeline itself continued to operate normally.
The Druzhba oil pipeline originates in Almetievsk, passes through Bryansk and then branches into two sections: the northern one — through the territory of Belarus in the direction of Poland and the southern one — through the territory of Ukraine in the direction of Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic.