The head of Ukraine’s national energy company has called on EU countries to help protect its natural gas storage facilities from a recent spate of Russian attacks so they can keep contributing to lower prices across the continent.
Oleksiy Chernyshov, chief executive of state-run Naftogaz, said: “It is of interest of the EU to protect storage, transportation and production [facilities]”, given that Ukraine’s gas infrastructure is “well integrated” into Europe’s energy system.
Naftogaz said gas storage sites in western Ukraine had come under attack several times in recent months, but only above-ground facilities had been damaged. Underground storage tanks, which may be as deep as 3km beneath the surface, had remained unaffected, it said.
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