Moscow (EFE) – The Kremlin published on its website on Tuesday the list of Russian and Ukrainian energy infrastrucuture covered by a temporary truce on strikes agreed between Russia and the United States.
The list includes power and hydroelectric plants, substations, transformers, and any power generation or transmission facilities, according to the Russian government’s statement.
In addition, neither side will be allowed to attack gas pipelines, gas compressor stations, oil pipelines, oil depots, and refineries.
The Russians and Ukrainians also pledged not to attack nuclear power plants, which both sides have accused each other of doing since the beginning of the war, particularly in the case of the Zaporizhzhya plant, the largest in Europe.
The communiqué specifies that the moratorium on energy attacks is temporary, initially for 30 days, and can be extended by mutual agreement.
The Kremlin stressed in an earlier release that the ceasefire started on Mar. 18, when Russian President Vladimir Putin unilaterally declared a halt to such attacks after a telephone conversation with United States President Donald Trump.
It also stipulates that the ceasefire can be suspended if one of the parties believes the other has violated the agreement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had not accepted the ceasefire until Tuesday, assured that it would come into force as soon as the White House published the corresponding communiqué, which it did today, Tuesday.
Russia accused Ukraine last week of violating the agreement reached with Trump to suspend these attacks, hitting several facilities in the south of the country, including the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Moscow and Kyiv also agreed in Riyadh with the United States on a ceasefire in the Black Sea; however, the Russians made it a condition that the West lift agricultural sanctions.
More precisely, the Black Sea Initiative, which was in force between June 2022 and July 2023, was the only ceasefire agreement between the two sides in over three years of war. EFE
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