Ukraine 'multiplying' energy attacks in Russia despite 30-day moratorium: Moscow
Russia says Ukraine has increased its attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure, hitting targets 14 times in the last 24 hours in violation of an energy truce deal brokered by the president of the United States.
On March 18, President Vladimir Putin of Russia agreed to a proposal by US President Donald Trump for Moscow and Kiev to stop attacks on each other's energy infrastructure for 30 days. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also expressed his support for the peace initiative.
The Russian defense ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Ukraine "multiplied the number of unilateral attacks using drones and artillery shells on the energy infrastructure of Russian regions.”
Ukraine's military dismissed the remarks as "fake" and "disinformation."
On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he would give his US counterpart a list of energy facilities struck by Ukraine “so that they can present concrete evidence about what the word of the current Ukrainian authorities is worth, if you can call them authorities at all.”
On April 2, Russia's defense ministry said Ukraine’s drone and shelling attacks in the western Kursk region had cut power to over 1,500 households.
In the Luhansk region, which separated from Ukraine and joined the Russian Federation in 2022, a Ukrainian drone strike on a gas distribution station had left more than 11,000 customers around the town of Svatove with limited access to gas, said the state gas company.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the fact that Putin had agreed on the energy truce was evidence he was serious about engaging in a peace process.
He said that Moscow would keep working with Washington despite daily Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.
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