Overview
- Two backpacks with detonators were found Sunday near Kanjiza in northern Serbia a few hundred meters from the Balkan/TurkStream gas line to Hungary.
- Following the find, Hungary convened a defense council and ordered troops to guard its section of the pipeline from the Serbian border to Slovakia.
- Serbia’s military security chief said late Sunday there is no Ukrainian trace and that markings show U.S.-made explosives, while warning the manufacturer may not be the perpetrator.
- Ukraine denied involvement and called the incident likely a Russian false-flag tied to interference in Hungary’s election.
- The Kremlin said Monday it was highly likely evidence would show Ukrainian involvement, escalating the blame fight days before Hungary votes on April 12.