The Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and for Anti-Terrorism has announced that the explosion, which took place yesterday at the Russian gas hub of Baumbarten in Austria, was not a planned act, but the result of a failure technical. According to the Russian agency Tass, Austrian intelligence specifies that "at the moment there are no signs that it is a deliberate or planned attack and the possibility that it is a terrorist attack is also highly likely excluded".
The managing director of gas Connect Austria, the company that operates the Baumgarten site, Harald Stindl, in a speech this morning to the radio station ORF confirmed that already before midnight yesterday, the flow of gas from the Austrian hub of Baumgarten has been restored completely and in all directions. All lines are 100% operational. From Baumgarten, in the east of Austria, near the border with Slovakia, Russian gas goes to Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and above all Italy.