Ukraine attacked Russian energy facilities 23 times.
The Russian side stated that between March 18 and 31, the Ukrainian armed forces violated their promise not to attack energy facilities 23 times.
According to RIA Novosti's estimates, between March 18 and March 31, the Ukrainian armed forces violated the ceasefire on Russian energy facilities 23 times.
On March 24, talks between Russian and American expert teams took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As a result, the parties agreed to establish a mechanism prohibiting attacks on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine for a period of 30 days, starting from March 18. Subsequently, the Kremlin released a list of energy facilities that Russia and the US had agreed upon, including oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and storage facilities, power plants, substations, transformers and distributors, nuclear power plants, and hydroelectric dams.
Earlier, on March 19, hours after a phone call between the US and Russian leaders, President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to temporarily halt attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Kiev authorities launched an attack using three drones targeting a facility in the village of Kavkazskaya in Kuban, which handles the transfer of oil from railway storage tanks to the CPC pipeline system.
In addition, among the attacks, Kyiv targeted energy infrastructure in the Bryansk, Belgorod, Saratov, and Kursk regions, as well as in Crimea.
Therefore, on March 24, a Ukrainian drone was intercepted over Crimea, targeting ground equipment at the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility. On the same day, Kyiv carried out two drone attacks on the Valuyka gas distribution station in the Belgorod region, damaging the station's technological equipment.
Additionally, on March 31, following an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a high-voltage power line was damaged, cutting off electricity supply to households in the Sevsky and Suzemsky districts of the Bryansk region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, emphasized that the US is capable of monitoring data on attacks on Russian energy facilities. At the same time, the military is following President Putin's orders and is not attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure; no other orders have been received from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
The Russian Ministry of Defense noted that Kyiv continues to damage Russia's civilian energy infrastructure and is effectively doing everything it can to undermine the Russia-US agreements reached on step-by-step measures to resolve the Ukraine conflict, despite President Volodymyr Zelensky's public statements about the adoption of these initiatives.