Blast hits gas pipeline in Ukraine, no impact on EU supplies-source


  • World
  • Tuesday, 17 Jun 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - An explosion on Tuesday rocked the main pipeline carrying Russian natural gas to the rest of Europe but a source at Russian gas producer Gazprom said the blast in central Ukraine has not disrupted the gas flow.

"At 14.20 (1120 GMT) we received information about an explosion on the pipeline in a field between two small villages," a police spokeswoman in the central Ukrainian region of Poltava said by telephone.

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