Ukraine occupies a small, but significant, position in the global energy market. In March 2014, the increasing tensions between Ukraine and Russia caused energy prices to rise to multi-month highs.
Ukraine's Energy Challenge
Forbes: Ukrainian gas producers are reducing the country’s dependency on Russia
A picture taken on April 22, 2015 shows a part of a gas installation at a gas-pumping station on the gas pipeline in the small town Boyarka in the Kyiv Oblast.
