Russia and Ukraine exchange new accusations of violating the partial ceasefire.
The US got Moscow and Kiev to agree to a limited truce last month.
247 - Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday (20) of launching new attacks against each other's energy facilities, violating a moratorium brokered by the United States. The report is from the agency. Reuters.
Both sides said they were providing details of the alleged violations to the US, which led Moscow and Kiev to agree to a limited truce last month, as an expected step towards a full ceasefire.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine carried out drone strikes and bombings in the western region of Kursk, cutting power to more than 1.500 homes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a Russian drone struck a power substation in the Sumy region and that artillery fire damaged a power line in Dnipropetrovsk, cutting off electricity to nearly 4.000 consumers.
The administration of US President Donald Trump is impatient with the need for both sides to act more quickly to end the three-year war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin's agreement to the energy truce proves he is seriously committed to a peace process -- something Kyiv and some of its European allies dispute.
Peskov stated that Moscow will continue working with the Americans, despite what he called daily Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
Zelensky said on Tuesday (1) that Russia was breaking the energy truce and called on the US to increase sanctions against Moscow, as Trump threatened to do.
