- Ukraine is open to the possibility of attacking Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure if Moscow ramps up its targeting of Ukraine’s electric system this winter, Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in an interview.
- Galushchenko, speaking with POLITICO in Washington, D.C., after meeting with Biden administration officials and lawmakers, said Russia has regularly perpetrated cyberattacks against Ukraine’s electric grid and is expected to ramp up physical attacks as temperatures fall and people depend more on energy to heat their homes.
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LVIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 11: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi during a press conference following the tripartite meeting on January 11, 2023 in Lviv, Ukraine. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky met with Polish president Andrzej Duda and Lithuanian leader Gitanas Nauseda in Lviv. The meeting took place in the Pototsky Palace, where Zelenskyi, Duda and Nauseda signed a joint statement of the presidents of the Lublin triangle. During the visit, Duda said that Ukraine would receive a company of German Leopard tanks from Poland. (Photo by Stanislav Ivanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
