Cyber specialists from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Agency (HUR) launched a cyber attack against Gazprom and Gazpromneft on Jan. 29, Hromadske reported, citing undisclosed sources from HUR. The group carried out a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack,
This attack against Russian companies was deliberately carried out on the anniversary of the historic Battle of Kruty, a pivotal moment in Ukraine's struggle for independence. In late December 1917, the newly proclaimed Ukrainian People's Republic faced open aggression from Bolshevik Russia,
On the anniversary of the Battle of Kruty, a cyber unit of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate launched a DDoS attack on the digital infrastructure of Russia’s Gazprom and Gazpromneft. — Ukrinform.
Some EU officials are considering resuming Russian pipeline gas imports as part of a potential peace agreement with Ukraine, sparking controversy and opposition within the bloc.
Putin Says Ukraine Peace Talks Possible
The European Union has agreed to give Moldova €30 million ($31 million) to help fund emergency gas deliveries to the country’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria from 1 February.
The United States is now supplying liquefied natural gas to Ukraine, a move implemented in the final days of the Biden Administration.
Russian gas giant Gazprom , squeezed by plunging sales abroad as the Ukraine conflict prompts European buyers to turn away, is seeking to raise regulated prices at home to fund investment, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, proposed a scheme that would solve the issue of energy supply to Transnistria. He voiced it at a joint briefing with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who arrived in Kiev today.
Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.
The end of gas flows to Europe through Ukraine and new US sanctions targeting Gazprom Neft are putting more financial pressure on the Russian gas giant.
"I will be 100% on board with taking sanctions up," Treasury Secretary-pick Scott Bessent told lawmakers on Thursday.