Ukraine Hits Key Russian Pipeline Hub as Moscow Braces for Trump-Putin Talks

Ukraine says it has struck a critical oil-pumping station in Russia’s Bryansk region, igniting a large fire at a hub feeding the Druzhba pipeline to Europe. The Unecha facility also links to the Baltic Pipeline System-2, which carries Russian crude to Ust-Luga, the country’s second-largest Baltic oil port. Kyiv’s General Staff reported explosions in both storage and pump areas. Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz blamed Ukrainian rockets and drones, calling the strike a “terrorist act,” but said the fire was contained.…