{"id":501081,"date":"2025-10-15T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:06:10","slug":"russian-army-hammers-ukraines-gas-system-for-3rd-time-in-a-week-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/501081\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian army hammers Ukraine\u2019s gas system for 3rd time in a week \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Russians cannot understand that we cannot be broken and intimidated like this. We support and protect each other. We will restore everything. We will rebuild everything,\u201d Koretskyi added.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian gas infrastructure is under heavy pressure from the Kremlin \u2014 but he has a plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have Plan A and Plan B. Under Plan B, if there is, for example, a strong attack on all gas infrastructure, we understand that we have imports then,&#8221; Zelenskyy told several journalists in Kyiv last week, providing no further details. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know the volume and cost of the necessary imports \u2014 this is Plan B. Plan A is when we rely more on our own production. In Plan B, we also know where to find the money required,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 3 strikes on Poltava and Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s main gas extraction regions, knocked out some 60 percent of Ukraine\u2019s domestic gas production, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-09\/russian-strikes-knock-out-more-than-half-of-ukraine-gas-output-ahead-of-winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Naftogaz reported that it was the largest strike on gas infrastructure since the start of the full-scale invasion \u2014 including more than 35 missiles and 60 killer drones. The strike likely forced Kyiv to search for an additional \u20ac1.9 billion in urgent gas imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Russians cannot understand that we cannot be broken and intimidated like this. We support and protect each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2595,2000,299,5435,660,2598,332,657,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-501081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-drones","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-gas","12":"tag-kremlin","13":"tag-missiles","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","17":"tag-war","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115377391945020114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}