Explosions near Vladivostok have damaged a gas pipeline and destroyed a water pipeline that supplied military facilities in the area, according to an unnamed intelligence source.
The incident, which occurred early on July 5, also led to a fire that damaged the Vladivostok gas pipeline along the Sea of Japan. Local authorities reportedly cut off mobile internet and communications in the Lazurnaya Bay area near Vladivostok, the unnamed source said.
The explosions occurred as the city of Vladivostok celebrated 165 years of its founding on July 2. The damaged pipeline provides gas to several Russian military facilities on the coast of the Sea of Japan, including the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Armed Forces, the source told the Kyiv Independent.
The water pipeline destroyed in the explosion provided drinking water to military garrisons in the area. The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify the claims, but Ukraine regularly strikes military targets deep within Russian territory in an effort to diminish Moscow’s fighting power.
Ukraine struck the Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast overnight on July 5, damaging a warehouse containing guided bombs, aircraft, and other military assets, Ukraine’s General Staff reported. The attack on the airfield was part of a larger overnight drone assault across Russia, with explosions and fires reported in at least six regions.