Peskov calls energy ceasefire ‘very good’ but ties it to tanker safety, sanctions relief
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin (Photo: Sergei Ilnitsky/REUTERS)
Moscow views the idea of an energy
ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine positively, Kremlin spokesperson
Dmitry Peskov said on Sept. 15, Russian propaganda agency Interfax reported. At
the same time, he said it would be effective only if strikes on Russian tankers
stopped and some sanctions were lifted.
Peskov called a potential energy ceasefire “a very good
idea, a good initiative,” but immediately added that “ensuring the safe
operation of oil refineries and increasing petroleum product output does not
solve global problems.” He claimed the key problem was supposedly related to
“the export of petroleum products.”
“It is necessary to ensure safe commercial shipping,
including for oil tankers,” said the spokesperson for Russian dictator Vladimir
Putin.
Peskov named lifting sanctions as a second condition for
resolving problems with petroleum product supplies. Only then, the Kremlin
spokesperson claimed, would there be enough petroleum products and prices would
fall.
Potential energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia
On Sept. 14, U.S. President Donald Trump said Ukraine had
agreed not to strike Russian energy facilities and that Russia had supposedly
agreed to do the same regarding Ukraine.
Trump also claimed that rising global diesel prices were
“caused primarily by Russia’s war against Ukraine,” rather than the situation
surrounding Iran.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for his part, said Kyiv was
ready to halt strikes on Russian critical infrastructure if Ukraine’s partners
could ensure that the aggressor had a “genuine willingness” not to attack
Ukraine’s energy facilities, critical infrastructure and food supplies.
“Ukraine has proposed that its partners secure an agreement
with Russia that would stop the destruction of critical infrastructure. Food,
energy and other elements essential to sustaining life must be protected, and
Russian strikes are aimed primarily at these,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
In his evening address, the president clarified that the
United States had proposed a mutual halt to strikes on critical
infrastructure by Ukraine and Russia, but that Russia had yet to demonstrate a
genuine readiness to end the war.
Earlier, on Sept. 13, Trump said Ukraine should stop
striking Russian energy facilities because the attacks were causing diesel
shortages.
“Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has to do just one thing. He has to
stop destroying the diesel fuel supplies in Russia. He’s causing a diesel fuel
shortage,” the U.S. president told reporters during a visit to the Irish Open
golf tournament.
The Kremlin said Moscow
welcomes any calls for Ukraine to stop striking Russia’s economic
infrastructure. At the same time, it did not say whether Russia would be
prepared to stop striking Ukraine’s economic infrastructure if Kyiv accepted
the proposal.
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