The Brief – Learning from the best: Ukraine shares energy resilience lessons

No country has had to develop energy resilience so much as Ukraine, which for over four years has managed blackouts as its power infrastructure has been bombarded by Russia. But despite the constant drone attacks and missile strikes, Kyiv has coped remarkably well.

Now others want to learn, with an Ukrainian delegation centre stage at an energy security conference in Berlin. Germany’s foreign minister lauded the embattled country, saying that other European countries should “listen very carefully” to its lessons.

Berlin was itself hit in January by the biggest blackout since the Second World War, though the cause was an elementary fire bomb detonated by left-wing extremists.

“Ukraine acts with courage and quickly, learning through trial and error,” said one energy specialist. Another said that knowledge exchange between Ukraine and Germany is already taking place at multiple levels, pointing out that both sides can learn from the discourse on energy strategy.

“Energy is…