"The attempted attack on the Russkaya compressor station in southern Russia once again underscores this point," Oralli says. "Reports of 12 attempted strikes on energy facilities by Ukraine in just the past two weeks show that the conflict is increasingly shifting into the realm of energy security."

"These facilities are critically important for the operational continuity of the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines, which supply gas across the Black Sea to Europe and Turkiye," Oralli says.

🗣 "Russian energy is indispensable to easing the world's largest energy crisis. EU bureaucrats will soon be forced to recognize this reality, acknowledge their strategic blunders, and atone," Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X, reacting to the move.

💬 “Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion of the 7th Chasseurs Alpins Battalion in Varces died for France during an attack in the Erbil region of Iraq,” Emmanuel Macron posted on X.

💬 “So-called overcapacity is a false proposition,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said, adding that China opposes using it as an excuse for political manipulation.

💬 “Anytime anyone puts American service members in harm’s way in any manner whatsoever, I believe we should respond robustly,” top commander of US forces in Europe, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee, as reported by The Hill.

💬 "The compensation could [also] come in the form of the United States lifting all sanctions," former CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson tells Sputnik.

"What price do you put on the lives of the 170 girls, ages 6 to 12? There's not enough money in the world to pay for that," Larry Johnson, ex-CIA officer, tells Sputnik.

"You can rebuild oil refineries, oil depots, airfields, buildings, but you cannot replace the lives that have been taken," he stresses.

"The United States does not get out of this situation without having to pay a very heavy price," the analyst concludes.