There is information that the accident occurred due to a gap in the connection between the coastal and underwater parts.

In Russia, there was an explosion and a fire on a gas pipeline in the Yaroslavl region.

It is reported that the accident occurred due to a break in the connection between the coastal part and the underwater part in the Myshkin district in the area of ​​Yeremeitseve village.

Russian media are publishing videos from the scene.

According to Russian media, the outbreak was eliminated. It is noted that the accident did not affect the gas supply of the population, that there were allegedly no casualties or damage, although the eyewitnesses felt the heat from the fire, being five hundred meters away from it.

Earlier it was reported how a pipeline with export gas to Western Europe through Ukraine exploded in Russia. At the same time, the explosion on the main gas pipeline occurred the day after the EU agreed on the maximum price for Russian gas.

And earlier in Russia, a powerful explosion occurred at a gas filling station near St. Petersburg.