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The threat comes as Trump increases pressure on Moscow to sign a peace deal.

Polish energy group Orlen has informed the prosecution service over what it says are irregularities by the company’s previous management that led to tens of billions of złoty in losses.

An area of 1,000 sq/m is on fire at the Tuapse oil refinery following last night’s attack.

Russia launched a large-scale aerial assault on Ukraine early Friday, targeting electricity and gas infrastructure.

Russian oil supplies to the Czech Republic via the Druzhba pipeline were reportedly halted on Tuesday, with no immediate reason given and local refiner Unipetrol saying it had asked to tap state reserves.

Finland and Estonia’s power grid operators have decided against seizing an oil tanker suspected of damaging cables under the Baltic Sea.

A close friend of Vladimir Putin is pushing for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany to be reopened with U.S. backing, according to a media report.

A Hungarian-owned trading company will supply Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region with natural gas following a request from Russia's energy minister, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.

Andrzej Domański was addressing the European Parliament.

Ukrainian natural gas production facilities were damaged in a Russian attack on Ukraine's central Poltava region overnight, the state-run oil and gas firm Naftogaz and Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Tuesday.

Moldova's pro-Russian breakaway Transnistria region has rejected a European Union offer of 60 million euros to fund gas purchases because of concern Moscow would lose control of the territory, Moldova's government said on Monday.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has called the full integration of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia into the European energy network a “groundbreaking event,” adding that the three Baltic states, alongside Poland, will help ensure energy security in the EU.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said on Sunday they had successfully synchronised their electricity systems to the European continental power grid, one day after severing decades-old energy ties to Russia and Belarus.

Twelve European countries including Poland have called on the wealthy G7 nations to take additional steps to target Russia’s “shadow fleet” in order to reduce Moscow’s revenue from natural resources.

Moscow will no longer be able to interfere with the power supply of the three Baltic countries.

LitPol Link is key to Baltic grids’ planned synchronization with Europe.

Poland's biggest energy company and its Canadian partner have started building the first offshore wind farm in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea.

Slovak state-owned energy supplier SPP began importing Russian gas via the TurkStream pipeline on February 1, with deliveries expected to double in April, local media cited the company’s chairman as saying on Thursday.

Ambitious plans to build a power cable under the Black Sea to connect the European Union and the South Caucasus have taken a leap forward.

Norway's eurosceptic Centre Party quit the government on Thursday in a dispute over the adoption of European Union energy policies, leaving the centre-left Labour Party to rule alone eight months before an election.