Strengthening the Security of Critical Energy Infrastructure Against Cyber and Hybrid Threats - The European Files

Strengthening the Security of Critical Energy Infrastructure Against Cyber and Hybrid Threats - The European Files

From the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – in February 2022, against the backdrop of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 – critical energy infrastructure was in Moscow’s target list. First, fuel depots, then refineries, key power grid nodes, heat and power plants, as well as gas infrastructure. It was not a “hybrid threat”, but part of a direct military attack, in which Russia used kinetic means – missiles, drones…