Ukraine Blackouts Put Pipe With Gas For Europe at Risk
- Russian rockets knock out critical energy infrastructure
- Situation with gas grid is ‘difficult, but under control’
A woman walks on a street during a blackout in Lviv on November 23.
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The trickle of natural gas still flowing through Ukraine to Western Europe is at risk after Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure led to blackouts in much of the region.
Emergency power cuts imposed by Ukraine after a barrage of Russian missile strikes against production plants and other infrastructure threatens to paralyze a pipeline that ships gas through the region, according to Sergiy Makogon, former chief of Ukraine’s Gas Transmission System Operator and energy expert.