Nadia Pryshlyak17:53, 11.07.25

The amount of the immediate damage caused is at least 1.3 million US dollars.

In the city of Langepas, Tyumen region, Russia, a powerful explosion destroyed a section of a large gas pipeline serving Russian military-industrial enterprises in the Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, and Sverdlovsk regions. UNIAN was informed about this by sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to their data, on the evening of July 10, a powerful explosion occurred in the city of Langepas, located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of the Tyumen Region of the Russian Federation, followed by a large-scale fire. 

According to the source, the capacity of the affected gas pipeline is 2.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, and given the distance between the gas compressor stations (about 20 kilometers), the two pipes damaged by the explosions contained approximately 4,112,000 cubic meters of gas. 

“Since the price of 1,000 cubic meters of gas is currently about $350, the amount of one-time damage alone is at least $1.3 million,” the source told the agency.  Read also:

The interlocutor at the GUR explained that the work on restoring and testing the gas pipeline will last about one month, since the damaged pipes are located in a swampy area, which complicates the work of repair crews and will lead to a reduction in the volume of gas supply for the specified period to 25 million cubic meters. m. And this, accordingly, will lead to indirect material losses of almost 76 million US dollars.

According to local media, the “powerful bangs” caused “deep concern” among the local population. Emergency services and repair crews immediately arrived at the scene. 

The intelligence agency noted that the population of Western Siberia, whose rich natural resources “feed” Moscow and allow the Kremlin to live in luxury, should think about their future. 

“There is a feeling that when the locals start actively advocating for their own independence from the center, such “incomprehensible explosions” will stop, Siberians will no longer die for Putin’s interests in the so-called “Northern Front” and the region will flourish thanks to its natural resources. Until that moment, obviously, here and there “something will happen” with GURkot, explosions and crazy losses,” – a source from Ukrainian intelligence commented on the event.

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