Infrastructure/Industrial sabogate?

[Matthew]

>Marathon to Shut Third-Largest US Oil Refinery After Storage Tank Fire
>Garyville plant has suffered three fires in less than a year
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-25/marathon-to-shut-third-largest-us-oil-refinery-amid-blaze

[Matthew]

>massive fire rages on the territory of an oil depot in St.Petersburg, Russia.
https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1698262394558910655

[Matthew]

>‘Several’ employees injured after explosion rips through Illinois ADM plant
>The blaze is the third fire at ADM this year
https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/illinoisexplosion-rips-through-illinois-adm-plant-injuring-several-employees

[Matthew]

>Uzbekistan: Powerful explosion near Tashkent airport

https://www.dw.com/en/uzbekistan-powerful-explosion-near-tashkent-airport/a-66943782

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1695871103600304.webm

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1695871345205121.webm

[Matthew]

>Lightning strike causes huge explosion at Oxford recycling plant
>Video and images shared on social media show a pyramid of flames on the horizon, inside a yellow and orange mushroom-like shape.
>Another witness told the Oxford Mail they saw a “strange pulsing sky out of our windows”.
>Other witnesses reported seeing “orange lightning” and hearing what sounded like a car crash outside their home. “The sky was glowing for about two minutes and then it just disappeared,” one person wrote on social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/02/lightning-strike-causes-huge-explosion-at-oxford-recycling-plant

[Matthew]

>Finland, now a member of NATO, is due to hold a news conference amid reports its gas pipeline from Estonia has been damaged in a suspected attack by Russia - sending UK gas prices soaring.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-nato-member-finland-says-its-gas-pipeline-has-been-deliberately-damaged-and-believes-russia-behind-attack-reports-12541713

[Matthew]

>Sweden announces that the Baltic Sea Submarine Cable (telecommunications) between Sweden and Estonia has been damaged.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1714316848819315037

[Matthew]

>A train passing through the Severomuy tunnel, in Russia, exploded.
>The train was hauling 41 fuel tanks, 3 jet fuel tanks & 6 ferrous metal cars.
>Why did it blow-up, destroying the critically important tunnel??
https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1730212486626820389

>The tunnel is 15.34 kilometres (9.53 mi) long, the longest in Russia (excluding metro lines).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severomuysky_Tunnel

[Matthew]

>Rail havoc in Russia after second explosion in as many days destroys key ‘Devil’s Bridge’ – NV souces
>Another fuel train explosion on Russia’s Baikal-Amur Mainline signals the second phase of a strategic operation by Ukraine’s SBU to disrupt this vital railway route, sources told NV.
https://news.yahoo.com/rail-havoc-russia-second-explosion-122400724.html

[Matthew]

>Huge Fire Rips Through Russian Warehouse as Arson Suspected
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-fire-arson-warehouse-st-petersburg-1860450

[Matthew]

>A large fire erupted in the early morning hours of January 21 at natural-gas terminal in the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga.
>The cause of the blaze has not been announced, but Russian media has said that the fire followed reports of explosions and drone sightings in the area.
>Moscow on January 19 claimed a Ukrainian drone attack had hit an oil depot in Russia's western Bryansk region. A day earlier, Russian officials claimed an attempted attack on a Baltic Sea oil terminal was unsuccessful.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-gas-terminal-fire-st-petersburg/32785378.html

[Matthew]

>Iran gas pipeline blast caused by 'terrorist attacks', authorities say
>Emergency services say explosion near Borujen city ruptured the country's main gas transmission line
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iran/2024/02/14/gas-pipeline-explodes-in-iran-but-no-casualties-reported

[Matthew]

>Key Bridge collapses into Patapsco River in Baltimore after vessel hits support column; state of emergency declared
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/26/key-bridge-collapses-into-patapsco

[Matthew]

>Fire breaks out at Russian military plant in Yekaterinburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSr1UUl_WDM

[Matthew]

>Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.

>"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
https://x.com/AFP/status/1816725064131469342

[Matthew]

>Western security officials say they believe that two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a covert Russian operation that ultimately aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada, as Moscow steps up a sabotage campaign against Washington and its allies.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-plot-us-planes-incendiary-devices-de3b8c0a

>Vladimir Putin is waging a covert war in Europe. Assassination attempts, cyber attacks and arson. There’s been a sudden increase in suspicious incidents across Europe—all linked to Russia. We’ve mapped them for the first time and found a pattern in Putin's new tactics.
https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1847222592144630102

[Matthew]

>Russia Issues Ominous Warning About Undersea Internet Cables
>Citing U.S. officials, CNN reported in September that Russia was developing a sabotage unit with submarines and drones to target underwater infrastructure by order of the defense ministry's Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research (GUGI).
>Media in Norway have reported concerns at the presence in the last few weeks of the Russian intelligence ship Yantar in international waters alongside its coast near critical seabed infrastructure such as oil and gas pipelines and cables for internet and telecommunications.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-pipeline-gas-patrushev-putin-1984215

[Matthew]

>An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was severed in the early hours of Monday by what was likely an external impact, authorities in the Nordic country said.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/finland-says-subsea-germany-serving-151226109.html

[Matthew]

>British police on Tuesday arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter as they searched for answers about why it hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England a day earlier, setting both vessels ablaze.
>the arrested man was the ship's master, whom the firm identified on Wednesday as a Russian national.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cargo-ship-captain-arrested-over-collision-with-us-flagged-tanker

[Matthew]

>London's Heathrow Airport closed all day Friday after fire causes power outage
>London Heathrow Airport (LHR) said it is "experiencing a significant power outage" after an electrical substation that supplies the airport caught on fire.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/londons-heathrow-airport-closed-all-day-friday-after-fire-causes-power-outage

[Matthew]

>Exceptional’ power outage in Spain and Portugal affects millions of people
>Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said a “strong oscillation” in the European grid was behind the outage but the cause was still being determined.
https://apnews.com/article/spain-portugal-power-outage-electricity-b0c5fbca49b8422248c4f933e20303b3

[Matthew]

>The oil tanker Vilamoura, carrying 1 million barrels of oil, exploded off the coast of Libya. The vessel called at Russian ports twice, reports Bloomberg.
>According to the consulting company Vanguard Tech, since the beginning of the year, similar explosions have occurred on four other vessels. All of them had previously called at Russian ports.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/general/oil-tanker-with-a-million-barrels-explodes-after-docking-in-russian-ports/ar-AA1HHyDh

[Matthew]

>Hungarian, Romanian oil refineries tied to Russia hit by blasts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/blasts-hit-romanian-hungarian-oil-162716227.html

>Over the past decade, there have been at least a dozen major refinery explosions and fires in California — with the two most recent explosions erupting at PBF Energy’s Martinez refinery earlier this year and Chevron’s El Segundo refinery last week.
https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-oil-refineries-newsletter

[Matthew]

>Across the past two weeks, a series of fires, explosions and suspected attacks has disrupted oil refineries and power plants in countries including Russia, the United States, Australia, India and Romania.
https://www.trtworld.com/article/d93ddad90806

[Matthew]

>Chinese Scientists Have Been Dying Mysterious Deaths Too
>as in the U.S., Feng's death was just one of many unexpected deaths of top-flight scientists working in ultra-sensitive fields such as military AI, hypersonic weapons, and space defense, according to reports in Chinese and overseas Chinese media.
>The phenomenon mirrors the wave of disappearances or deaths among American scientists that is now being investigated by Washington. In the U.S, there have been 11 cases, in China at least nine.
>It's prompted a disturbing question among some military analysts: Is there a silent "scientist war" going on?
https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-scientists-have-been-dying-mysterious-deaths-too-11861806