Ukraine attacked Russian energy facilities 23 times
Russia said that from March 18 to 31, the Ukrainian Armed Forces violated their promise not to attack energy facilities 23 times.
According to RIA Novosti estimates, from March 18 to March 31, the Ukrainian Armed Forces violated the decision to stop attacking Russian energy facilities 23 times.
On March 24, talks between Russian and US expert groups 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. The Kremlin then published a list of energy facilities that the Russian and US sides agreed on, 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, a few hours after the 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 government launched an attack with three drones on a facility in the village of Kavkazskaya in the Kuban, which handles the transportation of oil from railway tanks to the CPC pipeline system.
In addition, among the attacks, Kiev selected energy infrastructure in the Bryansk, Belgorod, Saratov, Kursk regions, as well as in Crimea.
So, on March 24, a Ukrainian drone was intercepted over Crimea, targeting the ground equipment of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility. On the same day, Kiev carried out two drone attacks on the Valuyka gas distribution station in the Belgorod region, causing damage to its technological equipment.
In addition, on March 31, after an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a high-voltage line was broken and the electricity supply to household consumers in the Sevsky and Suzemsky districts of the Bryansk region was cut off.
The press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, stressed that the US is able to monitor data on attacks on Russian energy facilities. At the same time, the military is following orders from President Putin and did not attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure; no other orders were received from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
The Russian Defense Ministry noted that Kiev continues to damage Russia's civilian energy infrastructure, doing practically everything to disrupt the Russian-American agreements reached on step-by-step measures to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, despite President Volodymyr Zelensky's public statements about the adoption of these initiatives.
