Kremlin says moratorium on energy strikes over: no other instructions from Putin
Russian leader Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on 18 April that the one-month moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure had expired. Source: RIA Novosti propagandists Quote from Peskov: "The month has indeed passed.
So far, there have been no other instructions from the supreme commander-in-chief, the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin." .[NB: Ukrainska Pravda does not recognise Putin as Russian president - ed.]
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- On 14 April, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia's outright refusal to cease fire had persisted for 34 days and that Putin is focused on continuing the war.
- On 16 April, Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said that Russia had struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure more than 30 times, despite the declared "energy truce" that has been in place since 25 March.
- Ukraine's General Staff continuously reported that the Ukrainian defence forces were adhering to the terms of the energy truce, while Moscow's propaganda machine spread false claims about Ukraine damaging energy facilities in Russia and the occupied territories.
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