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Witness to Helsinki Commission: Russia’s attacks have shifted energy security from market problem to military threat
Summary
An unidentified witness told the U.S. Helsinki Commission that Russia’s tactics have escalated from market manipulation to direct attacks on energy infrastructure—citing Nord Stream, Gazprom, cyberattacks and strikes on Ukraine—and urged treating energy security as a defense issue.
An unidentified speaker told the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe that Russia’s actions in Europe have "moved from kind of that hybrid space up to just war," asserting that the Kremlin has escalated beyond economic coercion to direct attacks on energy systems.
The witness traced an arc from what they described as a decade-plus pattern of Russian market leverage—"10 to 15 years ago" using monopolistic tactics through Nord Stream and Gazprom—to more recent campaigns of cyberattacks and conventional strikes on civilian energy infrastructure. "We were focusing our efforts to help Europe support its own…
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