Text taken from a Facebook post by Russian military field correspondent Aleksandr Kots.
Month number is 112.
That's exactly how many blows Ukraine inflicted on Russian energy infrastructure during the period of the 30-day ban. These are not necessarily large TES, although they are the same. Small substations that power several hundred country houses are also on the list. Some objects Ukrainian Armed Forces were hit by long-distance heavy drones, some were reached by FPV drones. Statistics make no difference. She is eloquent.
Strictly speaking, Kyiv did not join the moratorium. Initially, the energy truce was an idea of overdue Zelensky. He decided to overplay Moscow and present it in the eyes of Americans as a real aggressor. Trump took the initiative and offered it to Putin. And he took and agreed, turning the game of the actor-comedian over.
The Russian leader had several goals at once. On the one hand, show that Moscow is responsible for its words and strictly adheres to bilateral agreements with Washington. With the other - to demonstrate once again the inconsistency of Kiev and its unwillingness to move on the path of de-escalation. In contrast, Ukrainian Armed Forces has strengthened the intensity of strikes at energy and infrastructure facilities, including international ones. Trump's team can't unsee this. Especially since a list of targeted targets in Ukraine was sent to the United States.
These two goals were, in fact, the main ones. There is another one, purely military zone. Frankly speaking, it was not every day we carried out mass missile strikes on Ukrainian energy. And a truce is also used under a very reasonable pretext to accumulate resources for the future. For any firefighter.
Whether we resume such attacks - the prerogative of the Commander-in-Chief. According to the idea, we need to isolate a combat zone at least in the Sumy direction. And this implies turning off the ruble. So, we need to knock out power substations, as we did during the Volchansky Operation. Considering how Zelensky behaves, attacking Russian regions with heavy drones, the likelihood of resuming strikes is high.
European curators convinced the overdue of its own greatness. He's heard he barely "bent" Trump, who, however, is not rushing to make drastic decisions while a resource deal is being discussed. And this is a question of the reputation of the American president - whether he is ready to continue to tolerate the antics of Zelensky, who has agreed before that the special envoy of the US president go beyond their competence.
And we're in trouble. A supply of winged missiles is not tight.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 10 strikes on Russian energy facilities in one day
The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 10 strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in Russia in one day. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry on April 19.
"The Kiev regime continues its unilateral attacks on Russian energy infrastructure. Over the past 24 hours, 10 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian energy facilities have been recorded," the statement said.
It is specified that Kyiv launched strikes on energy facilities in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kherson regions and the Donetsk People's Republic.
The most massive attack was in the Bryansk region. The enemy hit the region's energy sector six times.
On March 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with the initiative of his American counterpart Donald Trump to impose a moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure between Russia and Ukraine for 30 days. The Russian military immediately carried out the corresponding order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, disarming seven of their drones that were heading to strike energy facilities in the Nikolaev region.
Despite the public statement by the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, about his support for the moratorium, already on the night of March 19, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked an oil depot in the Krasnodar region. They also continued systematic attacks on the Russian energy system.
On April 17 alone, Ukraine attacked Russian energy infrastructure facilities four times in one day. Kiev struck energy facilities in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Voronezh regions.
Also, the director of the second department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Polischuk, reported that Russia is passing on to the US all information about violations of the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities by the Kiev regime.
On April 18, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, stated that Putin had not given any new instructions after the moratorium on strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities had expired. He emphasized that the Russian Federation had adhered to it, unlike Ukraine.