As Europe wakes up to the importance of energy resilience, no country has developed such strength as Ukraine. Now others want to learn
No country has had to develop energy resilience so much as Ukraine, which for over four years has managed blackouts as its power infrastructure has been bombarded by Russia. But despite the constant drone attacks and missile strikes, Kyiv has coped remarkably well.
Now others want to learn, with an Ukrainian delegation centre stage at an energy security conference in Berlin. Germany’s foreign minister lauded the embattled country, saying that other European countries should “listen very carefully” to its lessons.
Berlin was itself hit in January by the biggest blackout since the Second World War, though the cause was an elementary fire bomb detonated by left-wing extremists.
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