What happened

RBC-Ukraine reports Kemerovo Oblast Governor Ilya Seredyuk as saying a depressurisation on a gas transmission pipeline in the Topkinsky municipal district, near Topki, triggered a fire that has since been extinguished. Under industrial-safety rules, gas supply to the Azot chemical plant in Kemerovo was restricted; Seredyuk said there were no plans to cut gas to private consumers, there was no threat to public safety, and gas pressure was later stabilised. No casualties were reported and no cause beyond the depressurisation was given; there is no indication in the reviewed reporting of an attack. The marker is an area reference for Topki, not the exact pipeline section.

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