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The Darnytska Combined Heat and Power Plant in Kyiv sustained critical damage from a Russian strike on 3 February 2026. Photo: Vitali Klitschko

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Finland backs €28.5 million power plant project as Ukraine braces for Russia’s next winter energy assault

Finnish technology will help Ukraine add power generation capacity as repeated Russian strikes continue to threaten the country’s electricity and heating systems.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Whatever came down on Lipetsk overnight, it started with a missile warning and ended in flames by the steel mill

Local Telegram channels had spread the missile-danger announcement hours before residents began filming blasts over the city.

byYuri Zoria

Russian ships burning after successful Ukrainian strikes on 12-13 July 2026.

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Ukraine hits 15 Russian vessels as drone blockade of Crimea spreads across Azov Sea

Thermal anomalies flared from occupied Mariupol to Kerch as Ukrainian drones struck ships, power links and the air defenses guarding Russia’s routes into the peninsula.

byDaniel Thomas

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The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap

Ukrainian buyers are installing them to decentralize a grid that Russian strikes have battered through four winters.

byYuri Zoria

On 25 June 2026, Gdańsk held the fourth meeting of the G7+ Ukraine Energy Coordination Group, also known as the “Energy Ramstein

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Russia has hit Ukraine’s energy system 6,000 times. Allies pledge €375 million at Gdansk conference, but fund is still short

The US, Sweden, and Norway led the pledges in Gdańsk, but Ukraine still needs over 3 gigawatts of thermal power repaired before winter.

byOlena Mukhina

Russia drone stikes power infrastructure

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Ukraine needs €650 million to keep lights on this winter. Without it, next repairs stop

Kyiv is pressing donors ahead of the Gdańsk recovery conference to replenish the fund before Russia resumes its winter assault on the power grid.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukraine strikes Kstovo refinery, supplying 30% of Moscow Oblast’s gasoline 800 km from border

It is at least the third strike since November on the same refinery.

byOlena Mukhina

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Canada adds 12.4 mn euros to Ukraine Energy Support Fund, total passes 57 mn

Equipment worth around 260 mn euros is already in transit to Ukraine, with delivery expected before temperatures drop.

byMaria Tril

Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal, 23 April 2026. Photo: Denys Shmyhal on Telegram

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Russia hit Ukraine’s nuclear energy infrastructure 155 times, creating serious risks for nuclear safety – Shmyhal

Officials say repeated strikes on substations linked to nuclear plants threaten the stability of Ukraine’s power grid.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Energy officials and international partners meet during the Ukraine Energy Coordination Group (“Energy Ramstein”) session focused on winter preparations and funding for Ukraine’s energy system. Photo: Denys Shmyhal

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Ukraine warns of energy funding gap despite €100M partner pledge for winter preparations

Officials said Ukrainian teams have already identified usable equipment from decommissioned power plants in several EU countries for transfer to Ukraine.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Orange State Emergency Service heated tents illuminated at night in front of Kyiv apartment buildings, some windows lit while others remain dark during blackouts

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Emergency boilers sat in storage all winter. Now Ukraine is rethinking the whole approach.

Russia’s energy campaign failed to break Ukraine. Kyiv has until October to build something stronger than luck.

byPeeter Helme

UK Defense Secretary John Healey, Ukrainian Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during the Ramstein format meeting, on 15 April 2026. Source: Fedorov

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254 soldiers per square kilometer: price Russia is paying to move front line

Ukraine is now downs 90% of Russia's attack drones.

byOlena Mukhina

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“If we don’t hit them in the face, they will hit us and won’t feel what war is” – Zelenskyy on Ukraine’s energy strikes

Ukraine will keep targeting Russian energy infrastructure until Moscow stops hitting Ukraine's own, the president says.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Kyiv proposes energy ceasefire to Moscow, as Ukrainian long-range strikes already disrupted over 40% of Russia’s seaborne oil exports

Russia can't protect its oil terminals. Ukraine destroyed $1 billion worth in five strikes. It just offered to stop — on one condition.

byOlena Mukhina

Fire at Ukrainian energy infrastructure site following a Russian attack. Illustrative image. Photo: Serhii Koretskyi

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Gas infrastructure hit again: Russia’s 2026 drone campaign against Naftogaz passes 30 strikes

The latest overnight attack on Poltava and Sumy oblasts adds to a relentless energy strike campaign.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Russian drones hit Ukrainian city 15 km from Poland. Next day, Belarus moved heavy equipment toward Poland’s border

Russian Shahed drones struck an energy facility in Novovolynsk.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal meeting with EU diplomats in Brussels, 17 March 2026. Photo: Denys Shmyhal on Telegram

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After a winter of blackouts, Ukraine and the EU stockpile energy repair equipment before Russia strikes again

Kyiv estimates €5.4 billion needed to prepare the energy system for next winter.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Russian Aggression

Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW says

With the campaign now over, Russia is preparing strikes on Ukraine's water supply — a shift ISW calls an implicit acknowledgement of failure, while warning that lessons from the energy campaign could be applied to water infrastructure, which shares similar Soviet-era vulnerabilities.

byYuri Zoria

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Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove

Amidst freezing temperatures and Russia’s systematic infrastructure strikes, Kyivans have developed specialized toolkits of DIY engineering and adaptive routines to maintain their homes.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Russian bombs kill four in one village, rescuers dig for four more in another

Aerial bombs destroyed two homes in Zaporizhzhia district, killing four people including a child among the injured, while in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast up to four people may remain trapped under rubble from a separate strike.

byYuri Zoria

energy infrastructure

Finland backs €28.5 million power plant project as Ukraine braces for Russia’s next winter energy assault

Whatever came down on Lipetsk overnight, it started with a missile warning and ended in flames by the steel mill

Ukraine hits 15 Russian vessels as drone blockade of Crimea spreads across Azov Sea

The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap

Russia has hit Ukraine’s energy system 6,000 times. Allies pledge €375 million at Gdansk conference, but fund is still short

Ukraine needs €650 million to keep lights on this winter. Without it, next repairs stop

Ukraine strikes Kstovo refinery, supplying 30% of Moscow Oblast’s gasoline 800 km from border

Canada adds 12.4 mn euros to Ukraine Energy Support Fund, total passes 57 mn

Russia hit Ukraine’s nuclear energy infrastructure 155 times, creating serious risks for nuclear safety – Shmyhal

Ukraine warns of energy funding gap despite €100M partner pledge for winter preparations

Emergency boilers sat in storage all winter. Now Ukraine is rethinking the whole approach.

254 soldiers per square kilometer: price Russia is paying to move front line

“If we don’t hit them in the face, they will hit us and won’t feel what war is” – Zelenskyy on Ukraine’s energy strikes

Kyiv proposes energy ceasefire to Moscow, as Ukrainian long-range strikes already disrupted over 40% of Russia’s seaborne oil exports

Gas infrastructure hit again: Russia’s 2026 drone campaign against Naftogaz passes 30 strikes

Russian drones hit Ukrainian city 15 km from Poland. Next day, Belarus moved heavy equipment toward Poland’s border

After a winter of blackouts, Ukraine and the EU stockpile energy repair equipment before Russia strikes again

Russia’s winter campaign was supposed to freeze Ukraine, split its grid, and stop its factories. None of it worked, ISW says

Kyiv’s winter survival gear: headlamps, EcoFlows, and a rock on the stove

Russian bombs kill four in one village, rescuers dig for four more in another

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