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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Explosives found near pipeline in Serbia probably ‘Russian provocation’, says expert

Military police in full combat gear stand on a road in Serbia
Serbian military police officers block the road near Kanjiža on 6 April after a cache of plastic explosives was left near a gas pipeline. Photograph: Ministry Of Defence Republic Of Serbia/EPA

The amount of explosives discovered in Serbia last week would not have been enough to destroy the Balkan Stream gas pipeline, prompting an expert to conclude it was probably a Russian intelligence plot aimed at influencing Hungary’s impending election.

A former Ukrainian major general and a munitions specialist told the Guardian calculations made by his company showed the 4kg of explosives recovered by Serbia’s military security agency in Kanjiža could not have seriously ruptured the pipe.

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