March 6 (Reuters) – Ukrainian engineers scrambled on Sunday to restore a gasoline pipeline broken by Russian forces, halting provides to elements of southeastern Ukraine, the Donetsk area governor Pavlo Kyrylenko mentioned.
Engineers had shut down the pipe to stop gasoline from leaking, he mentioned, including that gasoline circulate downstream was now dropping and would cease utterly later within the day.
Kyrylenko mentioned that each location between the city of Vuhledar within the Donetsk area and the port of Berdyansk could be left with out gasoline whereas the injury is repaired. The gap between the 2 cities is 117 km (73 miles).
“We’re working arduous to take away this drawback as rapidly as attainable,” Kyrylenko mentioned.
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Reporting by Max Hunder in KOSICE, Slovakia
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