US Edition‘We Have to Keep People Warm’: The Ukrainian Energy Workers Risking Their Lives as Russia Targets Critical Facilities
More than 15,000 Ukrainian energy workers endure over 600 attacks in 2025 to maintain power and heat during the coldest winter in 20 years, ministry officials said.
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‘We have to keep people warm’: The Ukrainian energy workers risking their lives as Russia targets critical facilities
When Russian missiles and drones approach the critical Ukrainian energy facility where Oleksandr Adamov works, he puts on a bulletproof vest and helmet and enters a small metal capsule.
The G7 and representatives of the EU and other European states and South Korea pledged to help with "several hundreds of millions of euros" to Ukrainian energy infrastructures.
On 23 January 2026, the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr Jean-Noël Barrot, and the European Commissioner for Energy, Mr Dan Jørgensen, co-chaired the first meeting, under the French Presidency of the G7, of the G7 + Energy (which brings together the G7, the European Union, as well as 14 other countries: Bulgaria, Korea, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine…
A new G7+ ministerial meeting on the Ukrainian energy emergency was held today, in light of intensifying Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure and the dire humanitarian situation, which risks triggering a population exodus from the capital and the most vulnerable regions. Undersecretary of State Giorgio Silli participated on behalf of Italy, delegated by Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani.
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