This special podcast episode is sponsored by Equinor and produced by Politico Studio.

We are repairing, for example, the damage done by Russian strikes. We are stabilizing

Ukraine's energy grid with new anti-dron equipment. You've seen over the last couple of months

also the big impact it has on water and on electricity.

So generally on people living their lives and being able to go about their lives.

Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,

the implications for Europe's energy security remain ever present

as new cyber threats and increasingly physical threats emerge.

Meanwhile, the conflict in the Middle East has delivered an oil shock that is reverberating through the global economy.

Energy infrastructure is now a crucial consideration for global security,

and energy suppliers, governments and NATO are raising the alarm about the need to protect it.

I'm Adam Green, a science and technology journalist. In this podcast, I talk to experts across

sectors about these rising security risks, Europe's cross-border energy connections, and the

coordinated international response that will be

necessary to hold on to energy resilience.

It's worth remembering that Russia has focused on targeting economically vital assets

practically since the Soviet era, because it sees the ability to inflict economic harm

as part of any conflict with NATO as a way to disrupt our societies

and to undermine popular support and popular trust in governments.

Oana Lengescu is a Brussels-based journalist and former NATO spokesperson.

She says hybrid attacks targeting infrastructure are part of Russia's war strategy.

We've seen, of course, targeted military kinetic attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure

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