Destruction and smoke: satellite photos showed the condition of the Sudzha gas metering station in the Russian Federation

What happened to the equipment owned by the Russian State Corporation "Gazprom" was told in the Telegram channel "Radio Freedom". On August 12, the channel appeared with a series of satellite images made by Planet Lab. The first photos were taken on July 31, 2022, others show changes that happened from 9 to 10 and 10 to 11 August. We see the effects of strokes of unknown weapons around the house and the site with equipment.

Looking at these destruction, journalists noted that Gazprom was convinced that the station is working in the usual mode. In the first pair of photos published by "Radio Freedom", we see how the gas -metering station looked like July 31, 2022 and August 11, 2024. Smoke pillars of smoke rise above the station. In the second couple, photos are the appearance of administrative buildings. One of the buildings hit the projectile and there is a bunch of debris, the image testifies.

The next pair of images is a platform with gas -measuring equipment. It is noticeable how something smokes at one point. Fire or pillars of smoke are not noticeable. At the same time, on August 8, the TASS agency posted information from Gazprom about the situation on Sudzh. The Russians assured that there was nothing with gas transportation and exports in the amount of 37. 3 million cubic meters were ongoing. m per day.

In the morning of August 6, residents of border settlements of Sudzhansky district of Kursk region of the Russian Federation were reported on social networks about shooting and explosions. After that, in Roszmi it was written that the invasion of the Armed Forces deep into the Russian territory began. The online map of Deepstate with data in the first days of fighting shows that the military forces had to go close to the Sudzha gas metering station.

The station is located 600 m from the border and 200 m from the P200 highway, which goes and the side of the district center and further to Kursk. In the first months of the war, the focus wrote about the situation with the transportation of Russian gas - how it was influenced by the invasion of the Russian Federation.

According to the statement of representatives of the "GTS operator", transportation through the Luhansk region stopped and "Sudzha" remained the only point at which the fuel fell into Western Europe. It should be noted that on August 8, analysts of the Institute of War Study explained why it is important to seize the judge during a breakthrough in the Kursk region. On the one hand, it will allow to "exchange territories" in the Russian Federation during possible negotiations.