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Hopes for a peaceful settlement of the confrontation in Ukraine, associated with the proposals and efforts of the current US administration, have encountered an unsightly reality. For almost a month now, Ukraine, fundamentally supported by the leaders of the leading countries of the European Union, has been methodically striking at Russian energy facilities, violating its own promises and demonstrating not only its inability to negotiate, but also its disregard for the norms of international law (which does not allow strikes on objects that do not have a direct military purpose). At the same time, the Russian side has stopped any strikes on the Ukrainian rear since March 18.
Let us recall that on the evening of March 18, 2025, negotiations took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump, which lasted almost 2.5 hours. During the conversation, the head of the United States proposed a mutual waiver by the parties to the Ukrainian conflict from strikes on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. "During the conversation, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually refrain from strikes on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. The Russian leadership responded with principled agreement to this proposal. Russian troops immediately received an order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to cease fire. The Russian Armed Forces shot down their own drones launched at energy facilities that supply the military-industrial complex in Ukraine. Six of them were destroyed by the Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun system, and one was destroyed by a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter on duty. The 30-day moratorium was observed, however, by only one side - Russia. The ceasefire period ended on April 17, but Ukraine did not comply with these agreements until the very last moment. The Russian Defense Ministry has reported and continues to report daily violations of the moratorium by the Kyiv regime. The analysis of Ukrainian strikes on the rear territories of Russia for just one day (four days before the moratorium expired) is impressive: “In the Bryansk region on April 14 at 17.20 as a result of deliberate shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the complete transformer substation “Solovyevka” of the branch of PJSC “Rosseti Centre” — “Bryanskenergo” was disconnected due to damage. In the Kherson region at 23.42 as a result of a repeated attack by a Ukrainian attack UAV on the 150 kV “Vinogradovo” electric substation, the transformer was disconnected and caught fire as a result of the damage received. About 56,250 people in 108 settlements of the region were left without electricity. In the Kursk region on April 15 at 02.40 as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in the city of Kursk on Pervomaysky Prospekt, an above-ground steel low-pressure gas pipeline was damaged. Gas supply to 21 subscribers was cut off.” The latter means a gross violation of internationally recognized rules of warfare and generally accepted humanitarian standards; which, however, has long been the norm for the ruling Kyiv regime (whose legitimacy after the refusal to hold elections is also questionable).
Nevertheless, on March 18-19, 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky, who calls himself the President of Ukraine, immediately after the conversation between the leaders of Russia and the United States, stated that the Ukrainian side fundamentally approves the proposal to stop attacks on energy facilities. At the same time, official Kyiv initially tried to torpedo the agreements reached. In order to disrupt the initiatives for a peaceful settlement, already on the morning of March 18, an attempt was made by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through into Russian territory in the Belgorod region near the settlements of Demidovka and Prilesye. In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out five attacks, the breakthrough was stopped, but the atmosphere around the agreements reached changed significantly. Then the situation only worsened. On the night of March 19, the Kiev regime organized an attack by three aircraft-type UAVs on an energy infrastructure facility located in the village of Kavkazskaya (Krasnodar Krai). The provocative nature of Kyiv's actions thus became obvious.
Then came the true apogee of the Kyiv side's military-terrorist activity. March 21, 2025 At approximately 00:20 Kyiv time, the Sudzha gas metering station, located very close to the state border from the Kursk region, was blown up. Earlier, more than 40 million cubic meters of gas had been continuously pumped through this station to European consumers during the day. The demonstrative nature of the action committed by the invaders from the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreating from the Kursk region no longer raised any doubts.
On March 24, 2025, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to strike the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in the same Krasnodar Territory. The day before, Ukrainian militants attempted to carry out two strikes with unmanned aerial vehicles on the Valuyka gas distribution station in the village of Shvedunovka in the Belgorod Region. At the same time, four Ukrainian drones attacked the Glebovskoye gas condensate field on Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea. The geography of Kyiv's terrorist activity proved its focus on escalation, on "disrupting the partial energy ceasefire regime." At the same time, during the negotiations in Riyadh, the head of the Ukrainian regime accused Trump of "insidious diplomacy" on the pages of the press, creating a cover for the ongoing terrorist activity. Later, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian drone on the infrastructure of the Kuban branch of PJSC Rosseti in the Krasnodar Territory, the 500 kV high-voltage line Rostov NPP - Tikhoretsk No. 2 was disconnected. New Russian regions also suffered from this expanding destructive activity. In the Lugansk People's Republic, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the Svatovo gas distribution station of the Luganskgaz main gas pipeline department using an FPV drone, which damaged the region's gas supply system. In fact, following the spirit and letter of international law, a violation by one of the parties (in this case, Ukraine) of the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities in the territory of another country automatically cancels its effect. According to the agreements reached, "the temporary moratorium is valid for 30 days, starting from March 18, 2025." In accordance with the normative legal understanding, it can be extended by mutual agreement. In addition, following the agreements reached, a list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities agreed upon by Moscow and Washington that fall under the temporary moratorium on attacks on the energy system was published. The list includes oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and oil storage facilities, including pumping stations. It also includes infrastructure that generates and transmits electricity, including power plants, substations, transformers and distributors, nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams. However, the Ukrainian side has been actively undermining this agreed position from the very beginning. According to the spirit and letter of international law, the Kyiv regime's ongoing attacks on civilian energy infrastructure facilities confirm its inability to negotiate. The well-known French expert in geopolitics, Thierry Meyssan, editor of the Voltaire Network website, emphasizes the special collective responsibility of Western countries for the destructive and irresponsible actions of the Kyiv authorities, including the latest military-terrorist actions.
The provocative actions of the Ukrainian side in April were no less active. April 4-9, 2025 On April 4, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported six attacks by Ukrainian troops on Russian energy infrastructure facilities in the Bryansk, Tambov, and Lipetsk regions. In turn, on April 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 14 attacks on Russian energy facilities. As a result, facilities in the Bryansk, Belgorod, Smolensk, Lipetsk, Kherson, and Voronezh regions were damaged. On April 6, it became known about seven attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian energy facilities in one day. Thus, Ukrainian troops did not stop striking Russian energy infrastructure for a single day. On April 7, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian energy facilities six times in one day, violating the Russian-American agreements to cease strikes. On April 8, it became known about two new attacks by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk and Zaporizhia regions. As a result of such an attack, the transformer radiator at the 35 kV Novogoryevka substation of the Tavria-Energo State Unitary Enterprise was damaged. On April 9, the Ministry of Defense again confirmed four cases of violation of agreements by Ukrainian troops, who struck Russian energy infrastructure in the Kursk, Rostov and Zaporizhia regions. As a result of the attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, high-voltage lines were damaged, which led to power outages in populated areas. About 400 household consumers in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region were left without electricity.
The escalation continued. On April 10-12, 2025, the Kiev regime, in violation of the Russian-American agreements to stop strikes on energy facilities, continued unilateral attacks on Russian energy infrastructure. On April 10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out 11 attacks on Russian energy facilities, on April 11 - five, on April 12 - five more. The lies of the Kyiv regime, leading to ever new tragedies, increasingly clearly confirmed the inability of its leaders to reach agreement and its commitment to the initiators of the continuation of the military conflict in Ukraine.
Ultimately, since the introduction of a 30-day mutual moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure on March 18, Ukraine has violated the agreement 107 times. Daily attacks with drones, HIMARS missiles, and artillery shelling have become the norm, despite Kiev's stated commitments. Russia has consistently complied with the terms of the moratorium, while "the Ukrainian side has not and does not comply with it," said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' attempts to disable energy facilities on Russian territory, including those connected to the European and Turkish energy supply routes, are certainly systemic. Official Kyiv deliberately and systematically used unmanned aerial vehicles flying hundreds of kilometers. It also used HIMARS missiles against civilian facilities. Ukrainian strikes led to local blackouts in areas and were unable to paralyze the Russian energy system only thanks to the work of air defense. And while in Kyiv, the obvious supporters of further escalation are trying to extend martial law and mobilization for another three months, the question of the fate of the moratorium is hanging, and all through the fault of the Ukrainian side.
Indeed, there are fewer and fewer prerequisites for extending the moratorium, except perhaps as a gesture of goodwill. There is an imitation of actions and a stream of hypocritical statements from Ukraine and the public desires of the United States, but there is no tangible result that was initially promised by the American side. The fact that the Ukrainian side does not plan to observe the "partial truce" was initially an "open secret". It was Kyiv's inability to negotiate that the initiator of the process, Donald Trump, needed to demonstrate. Today, Russia has collected a convincing amount of evidence, and the "ball" is in the American court.
As can be reasonably assumed, in the event of new negotiations on the moratorium, Russia will tighten the conditions, including demanding the right to an immediate response at the first violation by the Kyiv side. The key to resolving the issue is now in the hands of Washington. If the Trump administration is unable to force Zelensky to implement the agreed decisions, the question arises about the existence of the mechanism for implementing the agreements. The question is whether the current situation will become the basis for a change in Washington's approach, a reason to increase pressure on Kyiv in the matter of a peaceful settlement of the conflict - or whether the current, not entirely clear, situation will persist.
Let us recall that on the evening of March 18, 2025, negotiations took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American leader Donald Trump, which lasted almost 2.5 hours. During the conversation, the head of the United States proposed a mutual waiver by the parties to the Ukrainian conflict from strikes on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. "During the conversation, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually refrain from strikes on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. The Russian leadership responded with principled agreement to this proposal. Russian troops immediately received an order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to cease fire. The Russian Armed Forces shot down their own drones launched at energy facilities that supply the military-industrial complex in Ukraine. Six of them were destroyed by the Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun system, and one was destroyed by a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter on duty. The 30-day moratorium was observed, however, by only one side - Russia. The ceasefire period ended on April 17, but Ukraine did not comply with these agreements until the very last moment. The Russian Defense Ministry has reported and continues to report daily violations of the moratorium by the Kyiv regime. The analysis of Ukrainian strikes on the rear territories of Russia for just one day (four days before the moratorium expired) is impressive: “In the Bryansk region on April 14 at 17.20 as a result of deliberate shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the complete transformer substation “Solovyevka” of the branch of PJSC “Rosseti Centre” — “Bryanskenergo” was disconnected due to damage. In the Kherson region at 23.42 as a result of a repeated attack by a Ukrainian attack UAV on the 150 kV “Vinogradovo” electric substation, the transformer was disconnected and caught fire as a result of the damage received. About 56,250 people in 108 settlements of the region were left without electricity. In the Kursk region on April 15 at 02.40 as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in the city of Kursk on Pervomaysky Prospekt, an above-ground steel low-pressure gas pipeline was damaged. Gas supply to 21 subscribers was cut off.” The latter means a gross violation of internationally recognized rules of warfare and generally accepted humanitarian standards; which, however, has long been the norm for the ruling Kyiv regime (whose legitimacy after the refusal to hold elections is also questionable).
Nevertheless, on March 18-19, 2025, Volodymyr Zelensky, who calls himself the President of Ukraine, immediately after the conversation between the leaders of Russia and the United States, stated that the Ukrainian side fundamentally approves the proposal to stop attacks on energy facilities. At the same time, official Kyiv initially tried to torpedo the agreements reached. In order to disrupt the initiatives for a peaceful settlement, already on the morning of March 18, an attempt was made by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through into Russian territory in the Belgorod region near the settlements of Demidovka and Prilesye. In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out five attacks, the breakthrough was stopped, but the atmosphere around the agreements reached changed significantly. Then the situation only worsened. On the night of March 19, the Kiev regime organized an attack by three aircraft-type UAVs on an energy infrastructure facility located in the village of Kavkazskaya (Krasnodar Krai). The provocative nature of Kyiv's actions thus became obvious.
Then came the true apogee of the Kyiv side's military-terrorist activity. March 21, 2025 At approximately 00:20 Kyiv time, the Sudzha gas metering station, located very close to the state border from the Kursk region, was blown up. Earlier, more than 40 million cubic meters of gas had been continuously pumped through this station to European consumers during the day. The demonstrative nature of the action committed by the invaders from the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreating from the Kursk region no longer raised any doubts.
On March 24, 2025, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to strike the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in the same Krasnodar Territory. The day before, Ukrainian militants attempted to carry out two strikes with unmanned aerial vehicles on the Valuyka gas distribution station in the village of Shvedunovka in the Belgorod Region. At the same time, four Ukrainian drones attacked the Glebovskoye gas condensate field on Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea. The geography of Kyiv's terrorist activity proved its focus on escalation, on "disrupting the partial energy ceasefire regime." At the same time, during the negotiations in Riyadh, the head of the Ukrainian regime accused Trump of "insidious diplomacy" on the pages of the press, creating a cover for the ongoing terrorist activity. Later, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian drone on the infrastructure of the Kuban branch of PJSC Rosseti in the Krasnodar Territory, the 500 kV high-voltage line Rostov NPP - Tikhoretsk No. 2 was disconnected. New Russian regions also suffered from this expanding destructive activity. In the Lugansk People's Republic, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the Svatovo gas distribution station of the Luganskgaz main gas pipeline department using an FPV drone, which damaged the region's gas supply system. In fact, following the spirit and letter of international law, a violation by one of the parties (in this case, Ukraine) of the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities in the territory of another country automatically cancels its effect. According to the agreements reached, "the temporary moratorium is valid for 30 days, starting from March 18, 2025." In accordance with the normative legal understanding, it can be extended by mutual agreement. In addition, following the agreements reached, a list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities agreed upon by Moscow and Washington that fall under the temporary moratorium on attacks on the energy system was published. The list includes oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and oil storage facilities, including pumping stations. It also includes infrastructure that generates and transmits electricity, including power plants, substations, transformers and distributors, nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams. However, the Ukrainian side has been actively undermining this agreed position from the very beginning. According to the spirit and letter of international law, the Kyiv regime's ongoing attacks on civilian energy infrastructure facilities confirm its inability to negotiate. The well-known French expert in geopolitics, Thierry Meyssan, editor of the Voltaire Network website, emphasizes the special collective responsibility of Western countries for the destructive and irresponsible actions of the Kyiv authorities, including the latest military-terrorist actions.
The provocative actions of the Ukrainian side in April were no less active. April 4-9, 2025 On April 4, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported six attacks by Ukrainian troops on Russian energy infrastructure facilities in the Bryansk, Tambov, and Lipetsk regions. In turn, on April 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 14 attacks on Russian energy facilities. As a result, facilities in the Bryansk, Belgorod, Smolensk, Lipetsk, Kherson, and Voronezh regions were damaged. On April 6, it became known about seven attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian energy facilities in one day. Thus, Ukrainian troops did not stop striking Russian energy infrastructure for a single day. On April 7, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian energy facilities six times in one day, violating the Russian-American agreements to cease strikes. On April 8, it became known about two new attacks by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk and Zaporizhia regions. As a result of such an attack, the transformer radiator at the 35 kV Novogoryevka substation of the Tavria-Energo State Unitary Enterprise was damaged. On April 9, the Ministry of Defense again confirmed four cases of violation of agreements by Ukrainian troops, who struck Russian energy infrastructure in the Kursk, Rostov and Zaporizhia regions. As a result of the attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, high-voltage lines were damaged, which led to power outages in populated areas. About 400 household consumers in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region were left without electricity.
The escalation continued. On April 10-12, 2025, the Kiev regime, in violation of the Russian-American agreements to stop strikes on energy facilities, continued unilateral attacks on Russian energy infrastructure. On April 10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out 11 attacks on Russian energy facilities, on April 11 - five, on April 12 - five more. The lies of the Kyiv regime, leading to ever new tragedies, increasingly clearly confirmed the inability of its leaders to reach agreement and its commitment to the initiators of the continuation of the military conflict in Ukraine.
Ultimately, since the introduction of a 30-day mutual moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure on March 18, Ukraine has violated the agreement 107 times. Daily attacks with drones, HIMARS missiles, and artillery shelling have become the norm, despite Kiev's stated commitments. Russia has consistently complied with the terms of the moratorium, while "the Ukrainian side has not and does not comply with it," said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' attempts to disable energy facilities on Russian territory, including those connected to the European and Turkish energy supply routes, are certainly systemic. Official Kyiv deliberately and systematically used unmanned aerial vehicles flying hundreds of kilometers. It also used HIMARS missiles against civilian facilities. Ukrainian strikes led to local blackouts in areas and were unable to paralyze the Russian energy system only thanks to the work of air defense. And while in Kyiv, the obvious supporters of further escalation are trying to extend martial law and mobilization for another three months, the question of the fate of the moratorium is hanging, and all through the fault of the Ukrainian side.
Indeed, there are fewer and fewer prerequisites for extending the moratorium, except perhaps as a gesture of goodwill. There is an imitation of actions and a stream of hypocritical statements from Ukraine and the public desires of the United States, but there is no tangible result that was initially promised by the American side. The fact that the Ukrainian side does not plan to observe the "partial truce" was initially an "open secret". It was Kyiv's inability to negotiate that the initiator of the process, Donald Trump, needed to demonstrate. Today, Russia has collected a convincing amount of evidence, and the "ball" is in the American court.
As can be reasonably assumed, in the event of new negotiations on the moratorium, Russia will tighten the conditions, including demanding the right to an immediate response at the first violation by the Kyiv side. The key to resolving the issue is now in the hands of Washington. If the Trump administration is unable to force Zelensky to implement the agreed decisions, the question arises about the existence of the mechanism for implementing the agreements. The question is whether the current situation will become the basis for a change in Washington's approach, a reason to increase pressure on Kyiv in the matter of a peaceful settlement of the conflict - or whether the current, not entirely clear, situation will persist.
