Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz said on Friday its gas subsidiary had discovered a ‘promising’ new natural gas deposit in the west of the country.

CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov said the find was another step in the oil and gas company’s strategy to increase domestic production as Russia’s war on Ukraine resets Kyiv’s energy strategy. “In recent days, a well was put into operation on what was believed to be an exhausted deposit in the Carpathians,” Chernyshov said in a post on Facebook.