Russia Pounds Ukraine’s Naftogaz Assets in Three‑Day Energy Campaign, Exposing Wartime Supply Vulnerabilities
Russian forces have carried out three straight days of strikes on Naftogaz‑linked oil and gas assets across eastern, western and central Ukraine, damaging extraction sites and halting operations at a key drilling platform. The campaign pushes Ukraine’s already stretched energy sector back into a front‑line role, with consequences for winter resilience, industrial output and the fiscal lifeline that domestic production now represents.
Ukraine’s energy network is facing a new kind of pressure test as Russia turns sustained fire on the country’s domestic oil and gas sector, not just its power plants and grids. Over the past three days, Russian forces have repeatedly hit assets belonging to Naftogaz Group and its subsidiaries, forcing shutdowns and exposing a wartime vulnerability that goes beyond keeping the lights on. According to a 9 August statement from Naftogaz, Russian strikes have targeted company assets in the east, west and center of the country in what it describes as a massed campaign. In the night of 8–9 August, extraction facilities operated by Ukrnafta, the group’s oil arm, came…
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