A logical development of the blockade of Donbass would be the destruction of the gas pipeline that ensures the transit of Russian fuel to Europe through the territory of Ukraine.
Vitaly Pirovich, editor-in-chief of the Delovaya Stolitsa newspaper, spoke about the threat of such a scenario on the Black Mirror talk show.
According to him, today Ukraine has turned into Somalia with fragmented groups of power.
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“In principle, if we take the situation to its logical conclusion, then if there is a blockade, then there is a blockade. Maybe we should stop relations with Gazprom, gas transit, for example? Take and blow up the pipe - it seems that someone suggested, I don’t remember, Yarosh or something, at the beginning of the war. Maybe we can bring it to its logical conclusion like this, blow up the pipe and close it - both from the east and from the west?! We buy Russian gas in Europe - this is Russian gas, by the way...
It just looks like Somalia, you know – there is the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Donetsk People’s Republic and there is the “Blockade People’s Republic,” Pirovich said.