Russia reserves the right to a “symmetrical response” to Ukrainian attacks against Russian energy facilities, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
Russia and Ukraine mutually accused on Friday of flying a Russian gas station in a border area where Ukrainian troops retired. Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure in three years of fighting, and Ukraine has attacked energy facilities in Russia.
“As in 2022, provocations are being used again with the aim of interrupting the negotiation process. We clearly warn that if the kyiv regime continues its destructive line, the Russian Federation reserves the right to respond, even with a symmetrical response,” the ministry said.
Moscow declared a unilateral energy truce last week, that kyiv has not accepted, since it is at the expense of the negotiations that the US celebrates this Monday with Russia at the level of experts in Saudi Arabia, according to the Kremlin.
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, wants the truce to include the entire civil infrastructure, not only to the energy, and has delivered a list about the US that must be collated by Moscow. In addition, he assured that drones will continue to attack objectives in Russian territory while this truce is not embodied in writing.
