Russia provided the US with data showing Ukraine violating the ceasefire agreement.
Russia provided the United States with a list of ceasefire violations targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
According to RIA Novosti, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia had provided information to the United States, the United Nations, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) about attacks by Ukrainian armed forces on Russian energy facilities – an action violating the current moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure.
According to Lavrov, at a meeting of the Russian Security Council on April 1, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov reported to the president that Ukraine was not complying with the agreement to cease attacks on energy infrastructure. He also listed the objects that had been targeted by enemy drones in recent times. Foreign Minister Lavrov stated: “We forwarded the list of violations cited by Minister Andrei Belousov to US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. I forwarded this list to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and we forwarded it to our representatives at the United Nations and the OSCE so they can use it as evidence in their work, using specific facts, and consider the validity of the current Ukrainian government’s statements.”
Lavrov emphasized that, for its part, Russia did not violate the moratorium on attacks on energy facilities, which the president had ordered to be strictly adhered to following a phone call with White House leader Donald Trump.
On February 24, following talks between Russian and American expert teams in Saudi Arabia, the two sides agreed to establish a mechanism to prohibit attacks on energy infrastructure. The list of energy facilities that the parties agreed not to attack during the ceasefire included oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines, storage facilities, power plants, substations, transformers and distributors, nuclear power plants, and hydroelectric dams.
However, Russia accused the Ukrainian armed forces of repeatedly violating these agreements. Ukraine launched its first attack just hours after a phone call between the Russian and American leaders, targeting an oil pumping station in the Krasnodar region. This was the first in a series of attacks on Russian energy facilities.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said these actions by Kyiv are the best indicator that the Zelensky administration is incapable of negotiating.
