A series of massive Russian air strikes in the past week have disabled nearly 60 per cent of Ukraine’s gas production, raising fears of winter shortages, according to two Ukrainian officials with knowledge of the damage.
The attacks prompted Ukrainian officials this week to call meetings with western partners to inform them of the situation, the officials told the Financial Times.
Sergii Koretskyi, chief executive of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state energy company, said in an interview that Russia was again seeking to sap morale with targeted strikes on energy infrastructure, as it has every year since 2022. The difference this time, Koretskyi said, was in the frequency and scale of the attacks — with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles on an almost nightly basis.