Overview

• The funds are allocated to the Ministry of Energy for purchase and shipment of electrical equipment as humanitarian aid under the president’s reserve fund.
• President Ilham Aliyev instructed the Ministry of Finance to release the specified funding and tasked the government with resolving any logistical issues arising from the order.
• The decision follows a phone call between Aliyev and President Volodymyr Zelensky in which both condemned Russian Shahed drone attacks on a SOCAR oil depot and a Transbalkan gas compressor facility.
• European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas data indicate imports through the struck Transbalkan pumping station have held steady at about 425,000 cubic meters per day since early August.
• This allocation supplements a February decree that provided $1 million in energy-sector aid and underscores Baku’s ongoing support as tensions with Moscow rise.