Russia launches massive new strike on Ukrainian gas infrastructure

Russia launched another massive overnight attack on Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, targeting facilities belonging to the state-owned Naftogaz group, the company’s CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov said.

“Dozens of drones targeted Naftogaz facilities. There is destruction,” Chernyshov said. “This is another massive shelling of the gas production infrastructure.”

Such attacks have become a regular occurrence, said Naftogaz official Mykola Koretskyi. Emergency crews are currently working to eliminate the consequences of the latest strike.

“These facilities have no military significance,” Koretskyi said. “This is exclusively an act of terrorism by which the enemy seeks to intimidate Ukrainians and break our will. The terrorists’ goal is obvious — to weaken Ukraine, disrupt preparations for winter, and create problems with gas supplies during the cold season.”

According to the International Monetary Fund, as of early 2025, up to 50% of Naftogaz’s gas infrastructure had been attacked and temporarily disabled, leading to a significant drop in production and pushing storage volumes to historic lows.

In April, Naftogaz reported it had restored more than half of the gas production lost in Russian strikes carried out in February.

On March 28, Russian forces shelled Naftogaz facilities despite public claims of a ceasefire on energy infrastructure.

The March attack marked the 18th combined strike on Naftogaz infrastructure since the start of the full-scale war and the eighth so far in 2025.