Neither Russia nor Ukraine has carried out attacks on energy facilities since Tuesday, March 25, when the US announced that an agreement had been reached on a limited ceasefire, not to attack those facilities, a senior Ukrainian official told Agence France-Presse today.
"Since March 25, we have not seen direct Russian attacks on the energy sector, and we have not targeted there" in Russia, said the official, who did not want to be named.
He said that between March 18 and 25, there were eight attacks on energy in Ukraine, two with bombs and six with drones.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a 18-day moratorium on attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities on March 30, following a phone call with US President Donald Trump. During the call, Putin rejected the US proposal for an unconditional one-month ceasefire, which Kiev had previously accepted.
Moscow accused Ukraine of targeting Russian energy installations on March 25 and 26, saying that an underground gas reservoir in Crimea, an area annexed by Russia in 2014, and electrical installations in the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk were targeted.
After days of separate talks with Ukrainians and Russians in Saudi Arabia, the US also announced on Tuesday that a ceasefire agreement had been reached in the Black Sea, but a Ukrainian official told Agence France-Presse today that the situation there remained unclear.
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