Moscow (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – The Kremlin stated that a Russian moratorium on attacking energy infrastructure in Ukraine was still in effect despite reports of resumed Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure targets.
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov informed reporters that Russia was monitoring the circumstances and that the United States was able to do the same and come to its conclusions.
During a telephone call with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to observe a 30-day ceasefire on Ukrainian energy targets.
“So far, there have been no other orders from the president,”
Peskov expressed when asked if Russia planned to maintain its moratorium or not.
“Our armed forces are following all instructions of the supreme commander-in-chief, but of course we are monitoring the situation very closely. Our American interlocutors are also able to monitor the situation and draw the appropriate conclusions.”
What happened at the gas metering station in Kursk?
Two days earlier, Russia and Ukraine traded blame over a strike on a gas metering station that is situated in Russia’s Kursk region, not far from their border.
The strike on the facility in Sudzha follows a US proposal that both sides pause strikes on energy infrastructure. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that Ukraine had “deliberately attacked” the station, which has been under Ukrainian command since Ukraine launched a shock incursion into Kursk in August 2024.
Moscow asserts that Ukrainian troops detonated the facility during their withdrawal from the Kursk region to undermine the US president’s peace efforts.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry further cautioned that it
“reserves the right to respond, including with a symmetrical response”
To what it contends were Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure facilities. Kyiv has defined those indictments as “groundless” and claimed they are aimed at denying Ukraine and deceiving the international community.
