Author: Jeff + Claude AI
Genre: Energy
Date: 19th February 2026
Description: Stretching thousands of kilometers from the Volga to the heart of Europe, the Druzhba pipeline was Soviet engineering's boldest gesture of "friendship" — and its most enduring instrument of leverage. This gripping account traces Druzhba from its Cold War origins through decades of quiet dependency, into the 2019 contamination crisis, and onward to the geopolitical rupture of 2022 and the drone strikes that followed. Blending industrial history, energy politics, and on-the-ground reporting, it reveals how a single steel artery came to shape the fate of nations. A timely portrait of infrastructure as both lifeline and battlefield.