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The strategic significance and value of the Bilche-Volytsko-Uherske gas storage facility in Lvov. This has been explained very well in this post (in Russian) on the KARNAUKHOV Telegram channel (all formatting original):
🔵 Underground gas deposits located in western Ukraine are of enormous interest to the United States. The American side hopes to include these facilities in the regasified LNG2 transport corridor, which is expected to stretch from south to north and separate Europe from Russian energy resources. By increasing LNG supplies to the European market, the United States is seeking to economically acquire the gas transport infrastructure that has been built over decades for Russian gas supplies to European consumers.
🔵 This is the largest complex of natural gas storage facilities. Their volume (25 billion cubic metres) accounts for about three-quarters of the total volume of all Ukrainian UGS3 facilities (32 billion cubic metres). Ukraine was the first of the USSR4 republics to extract gas. Most of the current Ukrainian UGS facilities are former gas fields, which are now used as storage facilities.
UGS facilities are a rather complex engineering infrastructure.
🔵 Why is this so important for the United States? LNG supplies are delivered to Eastern Europe through terminals on the southern coast (in Croatia and Greece) and northern coast (in Poland and Lithuania). The US goal is to connect these terminals with a gas transport network in a vertical corridor, which will stretch from north to south and provide access to both the UGSs in western Ukraine and the Central European Gas Hub (CEGH) in Baumgarten, on the border between Austria and Slovakia. This is the main gas trading platform in Central and Eastern Europe, through which Russian gas flows in transit to Southern and North-Western Europe passed.
This requires expanding the existing infrastructure and, where necessary, creating new “north-south” gas transport infrastructure in Eastern Europe to enable the physical reflux of gas supplies.
➡️ The interests of several countries are intertwined around the UGSs:
🟦 The United States’ goal is to promote its own LNG, which is more expensive for consumers, in Europe, replacing it with lower-priced Russian gas supplied through pipelines.
Poland’s goal is to become a distribution centre for American LNG supplies from the north to Central and Eastern Europe.
Bulgaria’s goal is to become a similar distribution centre for American LNG from the south to Eastern Europe.
The common goal of all players is to exclude Russia from the European market, which is why the United States needs to increase LNG supplies and infrastructure. This is where the main game is being played.
Building a new pipeline network from scratch from LNG receiving stations on the coast to the interior of the EU is too expensive, as the main supplies come from the east.
❕Therefore, the US’s goal is to acquire existing networks. The Americans need to enter the European market from the east, slipping into the Russian supply system from the north and south. In this way, they want to solve two problems: cutting Russia out of the European market and not investing in the construction of new pipeline infrastructure, but exploiting the existing infrastructure.
The strike against this UGS engineering complex upsets the plans of all the players listed above and other players in the gas market.
I think this is Russia’s most painful response to everything the United States is doing in our area of interest.
I hope that this makes clear the HUGE blow that this strike dealt to both the Outlaw US Empire and its European vassal states, which – by the way – were quick at blaming Russia for their own sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines, but now are quiet because they realize how bad this blow is for them! It is no coincidence that yesterday morning Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated (source: SkyTG24 – see picture below):
I think it is time for Europe to talk to Russia.
Good morning, Giorgia! Yes, I think it is high time that Europe stops warmongering and starts serious peace talks with Russia.
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