The United States will help restore, diversify, and protect Ukraine’s energy sector from Russian attacks, as well as make it compliant with European standards, Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Geoffrey Pyatt says. Earlier, US Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery Penny Pritzker announced the allocation of $824 million to help Ukraine’s energy sector. According to Pyatt, 500 million of this amount is new money, and 324 million is money that has already been approved by Congress. The US has now repurposed them to focus on prioritizing short-term reconstruction of the ener…