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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Explosion Rocks Part Of Russia's Strategic Druzhba Pipeline

This of course is the answer of Europe to the Russo-American talks. No compromise. Escalation. Ukraine is heading towards complete destruction!

Explosion Rocks Part Of Russia's Strategic Druzhba Pipeline

While Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are in Moscow working to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, a series of attacks on Russia-linked oil tankers unfolded both before and during their visit. Now, reports are also emerging of an explosion along the Druzhba oil pipeline.

On Wednesday morning, Kyiv Post cited sources in Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR) that reported an explosion struck the Druzhba ("Friendship") oil pipeline - one of Europe's most important energy arteries, which moves roughly 1.2 to 1.5 million barrels per day from Russia through Belarus and Ukraine into Central Europe.

Kyiv Post said an incendiary explosive device detonated on the pipeline near Kazynskiye Vyselki along the Taganrog-Lipetsk segment. The outlet cited residents who heard the powerful blast.

Per the outlet:

The source said the strike took place near Kazynskiye Vyselki, along the Taganrog-Lipetsk section of the pipeline. A HUR official familiar with the operation said the blast was triggered by a remotely detonated explosive fitted with incendiary compounds to intensify the fire.

Footage of the incident has emerged on X...

The pipeline attack is part of Kyiv's broader campaign against Russian oil infrastructure, including four Russia-linked tanker attacks in just one week and additional strikes on land-based crude-processing facilities in recent months:

Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil and gas infrastructure jumped to a record in October.

As we noted earlier in the Witkoff–Kushner–Putin talks in Moscow, the Russian president called the attacks on Russian energy exports acts of "piracy."

THE FALL OF ODESA: The End of Ukraine and the Death of US Hegemony by Mearsheimer (Video - 34mn)

Europe is contemplating the check mate of its strategy in Ukraine but what's more important is how we got there. The analysis of Mearsheimer is detailed and accurate. So what's next? Will Europe accept defeat and face reality? This is of course extremely unlikely so they will most probably double down which is why Putin yesterday told them that Russia was ready for war. Europe obviously is not. Didn't they say 2029 at the earliest recently?

The US is contemplating the disaster and is trying to find a way out. But how do you escape a quagmire you've helped build over a decade? "Not easy!" to borrow the words of the American negotiators, is an euphemism. On the one hand, the US controls the battlefield on the Western side with their missiles and satellite imagery which means the war could stop overnight if they wanted it to stop. Trump is willing, but then there is the "other" side: Credibility and the deep state which still controls part of congress with money and other means. "That" makes the equation difficult and indirectly transfer the battlefield to Washington.

So what happens next? I don't know. The regime in Kiev is in the process of disintegrating. Washington senses it and wants an "agreement" urgently. Europe remains in denial with its dream of bygone grandeur. Intervention would send a few thousand soldiers to their immediate death on the front line. Indirect intervention means war.

Here's the elements below to understand better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74UgXPBj4jU

A critique of Europe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOft-NQPl74

And a window on the deep state narrative thanks to Redacted and Col Douglas Macgregor who completely eviscerate the absurd stories told by Western medias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WY9Sye31Ig