Russia hopes Turkey can get Ukraine to stop attacking gas pipeline infrastructure

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it hoped that Turkey and other countries could use their influence to stop Ukraine from attacking international energy infrastructure after what Moscow said was a strike on a gas pumping station.

Russia earlier on Wednesday accused Ukraine of attacking the facility - Gazprom's Krasnodarskaya pumping station - which services gas exports to Turkey via the Blue Stream pipeline.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the strike was "very dangerous" and that Russia was taking measures to minimise the danger of such attacks.

-Reporting by Dmitry Antonov, Writing by Felix Light;Editing by Andrew Osborn/Reuters