Zelenskyy: Russia keeps striking Ukraine’s energy despite ceasefire claims
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The Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara Oblast was attacked. (Photo: via Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Telegram)
Russia continues to attack Ukraine’s energy facilities,
while the Defense Forces continue retaliatory strikes on businesses supplying
Russia’s defense industry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on
Sept. 15.
In a post on Telegram, he said the Defense Forces’
retaliatory strikes were having a tangible impact on Russia.
“Russia has not stopped striking our energy sector, regular
logistics and critical infrastructure. And our responses are being felt,” he
said.
Zelenskyy also said Ukraine’s Defense Forces had provided
new information on the Syzran oil refinery. They also struck a drone production
business in Taganrog and a drone preparation and launch site in Oryol Oblast.
Strikes were also carried out in the Black Sea, he added.
“I thank every one of our warriors for the effectiveness of our
long-range sanctions,” Zelenskyy said.
On Sept. 14, Zelenskyy said the United States had proposed
that Ukraine and Russia mutually halt strikes on critical infrastructure.
On Sept. 14, Trump said Ukraine had agreed not to strike
Russian energy facilities and that Russia had allegedly agreed not to strike
Ukrainian energy facilities.
Trump also claimed that rising global diesel prices were
“caused primarily by Russia’s war against Ukraine,” rather than the situation
surrounding Iran.
In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine
was ready to refrain from striking Russian infrastructure if partners could
guarantee that Russia would not strike Ukrainian energy facilities.
Financial Times chief Ukraine correspondent Christopher
Miller later reported that Trump had moved too quickly in announcing an energy
ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine because no final agreement had yet been
reached.
FT sources said Russian dictator Vladimir Putin does not
want to reach an agreement before winter because he believes attacks on
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure could increase pressure on Kyiv to make
concessions.
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