On the night of August 6, 2025, russia carried out a deliberate attack on a gas infrastructure facility — the compressor station of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine in Odesa region, near the Ukrainian-Romanian border.
This compressor station was involved in the route connecting Greek LNG terminals with Ukrainian gas storage facilities via the Trans-Balkan pipeline, through which LNG from the United States and test volumes of Azerbaijani gas had already been supplied.
Last night, the equipment ensuring these supplies was attacked by dozens of strike drones. This is a Russian attack exclusively on civilian infrastructure, targeting the energy sector as well as relations with Azerbaijan and the US, and partners in Europe, as well as against the lives of Ukrainians and all Europeans.
Specialists are currently working on-site to assess the consequences of the attack.
“This is a clear signal for all of Europe, which plans to completely phase-out russian natural gas by 2027,” said Svitlana Grynchuk, Minister of Energy of Ukraine. “The massive russian drone attack on the key compressor station of the Trans-Balkan route shows that Moscow will use all available means and leverage to destroy the energy independence of Europeans and alternative gas supply routes. If russians are allowed to strike our energy infrastructure and gas routes without facing consequences, no infrastructure facility in Europe will be safe. Impunity only expands terror. That is why russia must be held accountable for what it has done.”
