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BBC Verify Live: Heat data and video show Russia pipeline struck plus latest from inside Gaza
Ukraine’s repeated attacks on major Russian pipeline have been stepped up. The attack on the Unecha oil pumping facility in Bryansk was the second since 11 August. It was also the third strike since this month on the Druzhba oil pipeline which transports Russian oil to Europe. Most of the European Union has reduced its dependence on Russian oil.
Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist
Last night’s attack on the Unecha oil pumping facility in Bryansk, Russia, was the second time the facility has been hit since 11 August. It was also the third strike since this month on the Druzhba oil pipeline which transports Russian oil to Europe.
Satellite imagery we’ve reviewed shows damage to the Unecha facility after a Ukrainian drone strike on 11 August. Nasa satellites also detected fire at the site around the same time.
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto described that strike as “outrageous” and called on Ukraine to “stop attacks on energy supply routes leading to Hungary in a war we Hungarians have nothing to do with!”
On 17 August Ukraine struck the pipeline again, this time at the Nikolskoye pumping station further east in Tambov region. Damage from this strike is visible on imagery provided by Maxar below.
Image source, Maxar Image caption, Satellite imagery captured by Maxar on 19 August shows damage to the Tambov pumping station following a Ukrainian drone attack
The targeting of Russian oil infrastructure has been a key feature of Ukraine’s war effort and such attacks have been stepped up recently.
But it is less common to see such sustained attacks on export facilities.
While most of the European Union has reduced its dependence on Russian oil since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia have continued to import most of their crude through the Druzhba pipeline.
BBC Verify Live: Tracking the growth of Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and what is the Druzhba pipeline?
A US federal judge has ordered the effective closure of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, a migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades. Its name reflects the local wildlife of alligators, crocodiles and pythons that live in the surrounding wetlands. The judge ruled that the facility was damaging the wetlands on which it was built.
Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist
A US federal judge has ordered the effective closure of “Alligator Alcatraz”, a migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades. Its name reflects the local wildlife of alligators, crocodiles and pythons that live in the surrounding wetlands.
During a tour of the facility on 1 July President Donald Trump said that anyone who attempted to escape would be met by “a lot of cops in the form of alligators”.
The judge ruled that the facility was damaging the wetlands on which it was built and ordered the Trump administration to wind down its operations on the site within 60 days.
Satellite images from Earth surveillance specialists Planet Labs shows that construction on the site began around 25 June.
Trump toured the completed buildings on 1 July and the first detainees reportedly arrived a few days later. Because satellites depend on cloudless conditions to get good images the first clear pictures we have after the facility formally opened in early July come from the middle of that month, showing more buildings erected on the site.
The bottom image shows the site on the day of the judge’s ruling on Thursday.
We’ll continue to monitor satellite imagery of Alligator Alcatraz to see whether there are signs of it being dismantled.