Record tranche: Germany allocates €160 million for restoration of Ukraine’s energy sector
Illustrative photo: restoration of the energy sector after attacks (Getty Images)
Germany has made its largest tranche to support Ukraine, transferring more than €160 million to the Energy Support Fund, according to Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Mykola Kolisnyk.
According to Kolisnyk, Germany’s contribution is the largest single donation since the Fund was established.
Overall, in December 2025, the Fund received €245 million in new contributions. In addition to Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy transferred another €3 million through the German development bank KfW.
Kolisnyk emphasized that the Energy Support Fund of Ukraine, administered by the Secretariat of the Energy Community, remains one of the most effective mechanisms of international assistance to Ukraine’s fuel and energy sector. The Fund’s resources are used to procure equipment for energy companies and to restore infrastructure after enemy attacks.
"Amid Russia’s continuous and targeted attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector, one of the Ministry’s priorities is cooperation with partners to replenish stocks of equipment for repair and recovery work," the deputy minister said.
He added that in December alone, during a series of high-level international meetings, Ukraine received assurances from partners of sustained support.
"The intensity of international assistance must be comparable to the intensity of enemy attacks. The delivery of the necessary equipment must match the pace of hostile strikes," Kolisnyk stressed.
In addition to the Fund’s mechanisms, Ukrainian energy workers also receive international humanitarian assistance in the form of equipment. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has received 1,995 humanitarian shipments with a total weight of nearly 26,000 tons from 38 countries. This assistance includes equipment for urgent repairs after shelling and equipment to expand distributed generation capacity.
Attack on Ukraine’s energy sector
On December 23, Russia carried out another large-scale strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight and in the early morning hours.
The strikes were primarily aimed at energy facilities, causing emergency power outages in a number of regions of Ukraine, including Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.
Following the attack, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy reported that the country’s nuclear power plants had reduced generation capacity as a result of the Russian strikes.
At the same time, DTEK (Ukraine's largest private energy company) CEO Maksym Tymchenko stated that despite all the shelling, the company does not intend to give up and will continue restoring equipment damaged by Russian attacks.
