Naftogaz Ukraine

Usually they're going after like the energy grid and And Ukraine isn't a big oil-producing kind of giant like Russia is, so there's not a lot of these to go around.

But they hit it with a salvo of five ballistic missiles, effectively destroying it, according to Naftogaz.

The facility had already been out of operation following a previous Russian attack that disabled its equipment.

Naftogaz says the latest strike caused critical level of damage, making restoration of the facility effectively impossible.

So it was already down, and now this particular facility is just out.

Russian strikes once more brought grief and destruction to Ukraine and Ukrainians.

Ukraine agrees future LNG and fuel supplies with Poland as Russia keeps hitting energy infrastructure.

Ukraine has agreed future LNG and fuel supplies with Poland through two memoranda signed by Naftogaz and Orlen on 21 September.

The LNG arrangement covers three cargoes in the first quarter of 2027, while a separate framework provides for petroleum product purchases worth up to US$500 million.

The agreements come as Russian attacks continue to damage Ukraine's domestic energy and fuel infrastructure.

They are part of a wider effort to build supply routes and storage outside Ukraine, including a separate fuel storage project being explored with Hungary.

The strategy shows how wartime energy security increasingly depends on infrastructure and commercial partnerships across national borders.

For further information, see Naftogaz Ukraine and Interfax Ukraine.

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On September thirteenth, Trump said that he had asked Zelensky to stop targeting Russian diesel facilities, as it was causing a global shortage and driving up US diesel prices.

Now, on September fifteenth, Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz said that two gas stations in Kyiv were damaged in Russian attacks on the capital.

Russia has recently begun striking gas stations in Kyiv, expanding its targets to include energy facilities, grain and food oil depots, and other critical infrastructure.

Russian forces attacked two gas stations in the capital with jet-powered drones on September eleventh.

The issue became one of the main economic stories of the day as the government continued work to secure international financing.

Naftogaz also announced an open competition for a new chief executive.

The government proposed stronger guarantees for people buying real estate, while the owner of Vodafone Ukraine showed interest in the country's last major state-owned titanium asset.

Crime, corruption and justice.

And the claim behind the seizure is enormous.

That ruling came after lawyers for Naftogaz, a Ukrainian state-owned energy company, applied for the vessel to be seized and made subject to a compulsory sale to compensate the firm.

The basis, a 2023 ruling by an arbitration court in The Hague ordering Russia to pay Naftogaz $4.22 billion plus interest and legal costs, appropriating the company's assets after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Two perspectives to summarize here.

The pro-establishment view comes from the Center for European Policy Analysis.

It was on request from Ukraine.

because the state-owned Naftogaz oil and gas company says that they are trying to recoup more than $4 billion as a compensation against Russia's seizure of Crimea.

Now, Moscow has seized on this, saying that this is just the West trying to intimidate

Russia.

Zelenskyy ordered a mirrored response.

Meanwhile, Norway seized the Russian vessel Professor Molchanov at Svalbard on behalf of Ukraine's Naftogaz to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award.

Putin called the seizure state terrorism.

The vessel was taken roughly 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland.

Reuters, Norway seizes Russian ship, sparking anger in Moscow to compensate a Ukrainian energy firm.

Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian ship in the Arctic on behalf of Ukrainian energy company, Naftogaz.

which is seeking $4.22 billion in compensation awards for assets that Moscow took when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

Officials said the vessel, the Professor Malkinov, was seized on Wednesday in Barentsburg, a coal mining settlement that Russia operates on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.