Serbian president: Explosives found near gas pipeline to Hungary

Published on 05/04/2026 - 13:04 GMT+2

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced connected Sunday greeting that service and constabulary recovered explosives that had been placed adjacent a pipeline that carries state to Serbia and Hungary.

He said that "two ample packages of explosives with detonators" were recovered wrong backpacks successful bluish Serbia's Kanjiza, "a fewer 100 metres from the state pipeline".

The Balkan Stream pipeline is an hold of the TurkStream pipeline, and transfers Russian state to some Serbia and Hungary.

Vučić said helium had informed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán "of the archetypal results of the probe by our subject and constabulary authorities into the menace to captious state infrastructure."

Orbán confirmed the 2 leaders had spoken, and said helium had called an "extraordinary defence council" successful Hungary for Sunday afternoon.

No details provided connected imaginable motives

There were nary details provided connected who whitethorn person placed the explosives adjacent the state pipeline, and why. Instead, Vučić said determination were "certain traces" which helium was unwilling to elaborate on.

The latest quality comes astatine a clip erstwhile the integrity of state pipeline infrastructure has been successful the headlines. The Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, a abstracted pipeline that carries Russian lipid to Hungary and Slovakia, has been the origin of a dispute betwixt Hungary and Ukraine.

It was damaged successful a Russian onslaught successful precocious January and has yet to beryllium repaired, but some Hungary and Slovakia impeach Ukraine of utilizing the contented for governmental gain.

Orbán’s authorities has repeatedly alleged that Ukraine is trying to trigger an vigor situation up of Hungary’s 12 April wide predetermination successful an effort to undermine his administration.

Unlike Hungary, Serbia is not an EU subordinate state, and is simply a campaigner for joining the bloc. Belgrade is heavy babelike connected Russian gas. It imports astir six cardinal cubic metres per time astatine astir fractional the marketplace price.