{"id":658223,"date":"2025-12-27T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658223\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:53:23","slug":"russian-strikes-hit-gas-energy-facilities-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/658223\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Strikes Hit Gas, Energy Facilities in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/politics\/trump-expects-talks-with-putin-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian<\/a> forces have attacked gas extraction sites and <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/georgia\/georgia-extends-free-healthcare-for-ukrainian-refugees-to-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Naftogaz<\/a> thermal power plants in <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/regions\/russia-strikes-kyiv-ahead-of-zelensky-trump-peace-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> using Shahed drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Naftogaz press service confirmed that the strikes hit both Naftogaz group thermal power plants and gas production facilities, <a href=\"https:\/\/caspianpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Caspian Post<\/a> reports via <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.interfax.com.ua\/news\/general\/1131830-amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukrainian media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Naftogaz CEO Sergii Koretskyi noted that the attacks coincided with a cold snap, explaining that the enemy aims to exploit freezing temperatures and peak energy demand to disrupt the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency crews, technical services, and all relevant units are working intensively to mitigate the damage and restore the facilities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Ukrainian Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov reported earlier that Russian drone and missile strikes in Kyiv and Kyiv region significantly damaged substations, overhead power lines, and certain energy generation facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration work on electricity and heating supply is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>On December 27, from night through the morning, Russian forces launched 40 missiles and 519 drones across Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian forces have attacked gas extraction sites and Naftogaz thermal power plants in Ukraine using Shahed drones. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[196104,2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-658223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-caspian-post","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115792813214107890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658223","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=658223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}