Yuriy Vitrenko, CEO of Naftogaz, said energy infrastructure damage is 'on the minor scale' though warned that could change.
The plant remains closed, Vitrenko said, though added energy infrastructure damage so far is not a major concern:"More and more of our assets got damaged but it's still on the minor scale. By and large, the infrastructure is still working."
"They try to take over such assets and have their military bases there. Because, again, we cannot bomb this infrastructure ourselves." "We still have our own production. We still have gas in storage, and we even have some imports as well. So that's how we manage to cover internal consumption. But going forward, let's see how it develops."
"They really took it seriously," Vitrenko said of the European response, though argued measures should have been put in place prior to invasion: Frankly, it would even have made sense to announce these kinds of sanctions before, because apparently Putin did not expect such strong sanctions.""One should expect that Russians will start playing around the sanctions," Vitrenko said.
"In terms of Nord Stream 1, I do believe that it should also be sanctioned, maybe with some kind of a winding down period for gas supplies," Vitrenko said.
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