The European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, has traveled to Kiev to denounce on the ground the attacks launched by the Russian Armed Forces on energy infrastructures in Ukraine, an example of «a cruel and inhuman tactic to cause suffering now that winter is approaching».
Simson is keen to highlight the need to support the sector and insist that Brussels will remain on Kiev’s side. «I have seen first hand the scale of the destruction and will do all I can to increase financial, technical and practical support,» he said on Twitter.
«We have no time to lose,» he added, in an appeal he extends not only to EU institutions and the bloc’s member states, but also to international partners and private donors.
Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko thanked the European «solidarity», «which means a lot for the whole of Ukraine», in a message on Twitter in which he shared images of his meeting with Simson in «unbreakable» Kiev.
