Overview
- CDU figure Michael Kretschmer urged a return to Russian energy supplies after a ceasefire, drawing sharp rebukes from party colleagues who called the idea security-policy nonsense.
- EU governments have already agreed to phase out remaining Russian natural gas imports by the end of 2027, setting the boundary conditions for any German rethink.
- Bavarian leader Markus Söder pressed for a policy shift that includes small modular reactors, pitching them as a domestic alternative to imports and high prices.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a rapid overhaul of Ukraine’s state energy companies, ordering a new supervisory board and full management renewal at Energoatom within a week and changes at Ukrhidroenergo, the gas network operator and Naftogaz.
- Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau says an alleged $86–100 million scheme centered on energy-sector contracts prompted ministerial resignations and suspects fleeing, as the army separately claimed a strike on a refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region that local officials said resulted from falling debris.