Russia says repelled Ukrainian drone attack on Turkstream pipeline compressor station

(Reuters) - Russian aerial defences connected Saturday repelled an onslaught by 3 Ukrainian drones connected a compressor presumption that is portion of the Turkstream pipeline strategy taking Russian state to Europe, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

"In repelling the attack, Russian aerial defences downed 3 Ukrainian drones astatine a harmless region from the compressor station," the connection said, referring to the "Russkaya" presumption successful confederate Russia's Krasnodar region.

"The compressor presumption is present carrying retired the travel of state connected the Turkstream pipeline successful mean conditions."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asked his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, to usage each means astatine his disposal to forestall aboriginal attacks and Fidan pledged to bash so, the Russian overseas ministry said connected its website.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, whose state receives Russian state done Turkstream, said connected Facebook that Lavrov had informed him of the onslaught by telephone.

Szijjarto said the cognition of Turkstream was captious to Hungary's vigor information and called connected the European Union to uphold guarantees that infrastructure linked to the 27-nation bloc would not travel nether attack.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Editing by Marguerita Choy)