Russia provides US with data on Ukraine's ceasefire violations
The list of ceasefire violations on Ukraine's energy infrastructure was given to the US by Russia.
According to RIA Novosti, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the country has transferred information to the US, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) about attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian energy facilities – actions that violate the current moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure.
According to Mr. Lavrov, at the meeting of the Russian Security Council on April 1, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov reported to the president about Ukraine's non-compliance with the agreement to stop attacks on energy infrastructure. He also listed the objects that have been targeted by enemy UAVs in recent times. Foreign Minister Lavrov said: "We have passed the list of violations that Minister Andrei Belousov mentioned to US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. I passed this list to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and we have passed it to our representatives at the United Nations and the OSCE so that they can use it as evidence in their work, using specific events, considering how valuable the words of the current Ukrainian government are."
Mr. Lavrov stressed that, for its part, Russia did not violate the order to halt attacks on energy facilities, which the president ordered to be strictly observed, after a phone call with the head of the White House Donald Trump.
On February 24, after talks between Russian and US expert groups in Saudi Arabia, the two sides agreed to create a mechanism to prohibit attacks on energy infrastructure. The list of energy facilities announced by the sides that they have agreed not to attack during the ceasefire includes 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 carried out its first attack just hours after the phone call between the two Russian and US leaders, on 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 Kiev were the best indicator that Mr. Zelensky's administration was incapable of negotiating.
