Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are not aware that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "damaged" the gas pipeline in Russia: gas is coming

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have denied reports in the Ukrainian media about the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the Central Asia — Center gas pipeline in Russia. They were especially interested in this in Uzbekistan, which receives Russian fuel via this route.

"According to the source, on August 2, the Central Asia— Center main gas pipeline failed in the Volgograd Region. It is a gas pipeline system owned by Gazprom and transports natural gas from Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Russia," RBC-Ukraine reported. The Ukrainian agency cited information that after reports of explosions, Russian emergency services left for the gas pipeline.

The news made a lot of noise in Uzbekistan, as the Central Asia Center operates in reverse mode and Gazprom supplies to Uzbekistan — 3 billion cubic meters per year. In the coming years, they want to increase them to more than 11 billion cubic meters.

The mass media of Uzbekistan massively appealed to the Ministry of Energy for comments.

"This information is not true. The gas pipeline through which Uzbekistan imports gas from In Russia, it is operating normally," the press service of the country's Ministry of Energy told the Uzbek newspaper Gazeta.

The publication noted that the Uzbek side contacted the dispatching services of Kazakhstan and Russia — reports of damage have not been confirmed.

Stable transit was also confirmed in Kazakhstan.

"In connection with the dissemination of information about incidents on the Central Asia — Center main gas pipeline, we inform you that gas transportation is carried out normally on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. There have been no violations in the transit and functioning of the gas transportation infrastructure," Tengrinews was told.kz in the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan.