KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated a Russian assault on his nation’s power sector on Saturday (Apr 27) had focused gasoline services necessary for provide to the European Union.
Russia continues to provide gasoline to the EU by way of Ukraine beneath a transit cope with Russia’s Gazprom that’s set to run out in December. Ukraine’s power minister stated final month that Kyiv had no plans to increase or change the association with Moscow, which pays Ukraine to export its gasoline to the EU.
“The primary goal was the power sector, numerous services within the trade, each electrical energy and gasoline transit services, particularly, these gasoline services which might be essential to making sure protected supply to the European Union,” Zelenskyy stated in his nightly video deal with.
Zelenskyy, who’s campaigning for provides of defensive weapons techniques from his worldwide companions, stated that Ukrainian forces had “managed to shoot down some” of the 34 Russian missiles of assorted sorts.
He didn’t say which particular services had been focused, nor whether or not missiles hit these targets.
Ukraine’s state-run oil and gasoline agency Naftogaz stated Russia had attacked its services however that no-one was damage and provides to Ukrainian shoppers and shoppers had been unaffected.
