“On the instructions of Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko, together with the Ministry of Energy, we are convening an energy Ramstein, at which we expect to receive additional contributions and specific commitments from our allies,” the minister wrote.
According to Sibiga, the Ukrainian authorities are in constant contact with the European Energy Community on filling the Energy Support Fund for Ukraine and purchasing equipment from the fund.
“Italy has already begun to deliver high-power industrial boilers (from 550 to 3000 kW) for a total amount of €1.85 million, which will help the most affected communities. We are also using all international mechanisms. The EU Civil Protection Mechanism. The Energy Charter. Other international organizations,” the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry emphasized.
As Sibiga said, all foreign diplomatic institutions were instructed to “mobilize donor support as much as possible” for targeted assistance to the most affected regions and communities, in particular with energy equipment.
“We are working at the pace and mode of an emergency to attract maximum support from partners in overcoming Russian winter terror and support for our energy workers,” Sibiga concluded.
Context
In November 2022, the G7 countries created a coordination mechanism to help Ukraine repair and protect its energy and water infrastructure – the energy Ramstein.
This meeting format was created to address three key objectives: speed up ongoing repairs to restore generation and distribution volumes; promote decentralization of the energy system and make it less vulnerable to the enemy; to help Ukraine implement new energy efficiency programs, then Prime Minister Denis Shmygal (now heads the Ministry of Energy) said in January 2023 before a meeting of the energy Ramstein.
Ukraine will convene a meeting of the energy Ramstein in January 2026 against the backdrop of an emergency situation in the energy sector due to air attacks by the aggressor country of the Russian Federation and the “hardest winter in 20 years.”
Thus, since the beginning of the 2025/2026 heating season, the Russian Federation has attacked Ukraine’s energy sector 256 times, the SBU reported on January 15. In particular, since the beginning of October 2025, the occupiers have deliberately attacked 11 Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants and 45 largest thermal power plants. The Russians also carried out 49 targeted air strikes on thermal power plants and 151 on electrical substations in different regions of Ukraine, the SBU added.
On January 14, the head of the Ukrainian state, Vladimir Zelensky, announced that a state of emergency was being introduced in the Ukrainian energy sector.
