Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod gas pipeline
The Urengoy — Pomary — Uzhhorod pipeline is a major natural gas transmission system carrying Siberian gas from the Urengoy field in western Siberia through Russia and Ukraine to consumers in Central and Western Europe. Commissioned in the early 1980s, it became one of the largest Soviet gas export routes and remains a key segment of the European transit infrastructure. The pipeline terminates at Uzhhorod on the Ukrainian border with Slovakia, where it connects to the European gas grid. Gas transit along this route has repeatedly been a subject of negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the European Union.
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Ukraine says Russia used civilians, including children, as cover while retreating through gas pipeline near Kupiansk
Ukraine's National Guard 'Khartiia' corps says reconnaissance drones recorded Russian forces on 27 September leading nine civilians — including children, elderly people and one person on crutches — out of the Kupiansk community in Kharkiv Oblast through the 'Shebelinka — Ostrohozk' gas pipeline. Khartiia says men of military age in civilian clothes walking alongside the group were Russian soldiers who had removed their uniforms, and that the children and elderly were forced to walk more than 10 kilometres inside the pipe. Ukrainian forces saw the group but did not open fire because of the civilians present; the military says the footage will be passed on for a war crimes investigation. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha publicly characterized the actions as the use of Ukrainian civilians as a 'human shield' and as gross violations of international humanitarian law.