An enormous wall of flame has been filmed erupting from a vital Russian gas pipeline after a suspected Ukrainian attack on Putin’s energy network.
According to Russian Telegram channel SHOT a “powerful fire” engulfed the pipeline near the village of Lykhma in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, in Siberia.
The fire was visible for several miles from the scene, with footage posted on Telegram showing a man standing by a line of trucks on a road watching the blaze soaring high into the night sky.
Investigators are determining the cause of the inferno at the Yamburg-Yelets 1 main supply pipe, with the Ukrainian authorities yet to claim responsibility for an attack.
It’s not the first time the infrastructure has been damaged, with another blaze rocking the area last year during repair work when one person was killed.
The pipeline is more than 1,600 miles from Moscow, but President Putin and the …