China News Service, October 14. According to RIA Novosti, on the 13th local time, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov said that Russia captured the saboteur who tried to blow up the "Turkey Stream" natural gas pipeline.
Peskov said that a number of saboteurs who attempted to bomb Russian territory were arrested.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) had previously arrested a Ukrainian man recruited by the Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU), and found improvised explosive devices from him, as well as contact information with Ukraine, bomb assembly instructions and coordinates of the detonation site. .
On October 13, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks during the sixth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
Earlier, Putin said at a federal security conference that Ukraine tried to blow up part of the "Turkey Stream" pipeline.
Putin also mentioned the incident when he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the 13th.
In addition, the Russian President also mentioned to Erdogan the idea of establishing a natural gas transportation hub in Turkey.
According to RIA Novosti, the "Turkey Stream" consists of two branches, one leading to Turkey and the other leading to Southeast Europe.
The pipeline was put into operation in early 2020 with a planned capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters per year.