{"id":1378336,"date":"2026-04-05T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/explosives-discovered-at-gas-facility-between-serbia-and-hungary-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:54:40","slug":"explosives-discovered-at-gas-facility-between-serbia-and-hungary-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/explosives-discovered-at-gas-facility-between-serbia-and-hungary-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosives discovered at gas facility between Serbia and Hungary: what is known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that explosives had been discovered at a gas facility between Serbia and Hungary. Hungary then convened a National Defense Council and Serbia launched an anti-terrorist operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He wrote about this on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/orbanviktor\/posts\/pfbid02q39YnKzhtzbEybeXbiPuEtKj1s1X9jnLFwYmW9UzDGRLJCT7J8iGvfHBCkwf9dXtl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to Orban, information about the explosive device came after his conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Serbian authorities have discovered an explosive device of destructive power and the means necessary to activate it at a critical gas infrastructure facility connecting Serbia and Hungary,&#8221; Viktor Orban said.<\/p>\n<p> He added that the investigation into the incident is ongoing, and also announced the convening of an emergency meeting of the Defense Council.<\/p>\n<p> In parallel, a large-scale anti-terrorist operation was launched in Serbia after explosives were discovered near the Balkan Stream gas pipeline in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p> According to Serbian authorities, two military backpacks containing high-explosive explosives and detonating cords were discovered in the area of the settlements of Velebit and Vojvoda Zimoni\u0107.<\/p>\n<p> Experts concluded that these explosive devices could have destroyed the compressor unit and caused a long-term stoppage of gas transit to Hungary.<\/p>\n<p> Currently, traffic is blocked in the area of several settlements, law enforcement officers are inspecting buildings and infrastructure facilities, and are also searching for possible other explosive devices and individuals involved.<\/p>\n<p> Separately, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhiy Tykhyi, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpoxUkraineMFA\/status\/2040809190050955502\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> that Ukraine was not involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We categorically reject attempts to falsely link Ukraine to the incident with an explosive device discovered near the TurkStream pipeline in Serbia. Ukraine has nothing to do with this,&#8221; said Georgy Tykhyi.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uriad-orbana-vyhadav-novyy-shpyhunskyy-skandal-za-uchasti-ukrainy-shcho-vidomo\/\">in Hungary, the government released a video of the interrogation of a 19-year-old IT activist associated with the opposition party &#8220;Tysa&#8221; and stated that he was allegedly recruited by Ukraine<\/a> . However, there are no such direct confessions in the recording itself.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-yes-domovylys-pro-vidnovlennia-naftoprovodu-druzhba\/\">Ukraine recently agreed to the European Union&#8217;s offer of financial and technical assistance<\/a> for the restoration of the Druzhba oil pipeline.<\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-tysne-na-ukrainu-cherez-naftoprovid-druzhba\/\">some European countries and the European Commission asked Ukraine to provide access<\/a> to the damaged section of the oil pipeline, but were allegedly refused.<\/p>\n<p> As is known, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-pryhrozyv-prypynyty-postachannia-elektroenerhii-do-ukrainy-z-chym-tse-pov-iazano\/\">a possible interruption of electricity supplies to Ukraine if oil transit through the Druzhba oil pipeline is not resumed<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that explosives had been discovered at a gas facility between Serbia and Hungary. Hungary then convened a National Defense Council and Serbia launched an anti-terrorist operation. He wrote about this on Facebook . According to Orban, information about the explosive device came after his conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1233854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1378336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}